Karen Thurman: “That is what we are hearing at home. It really is kind of sad. I think maybe we should jump over just to one other issue…”

“That is what we are hearing at home. It really is kind of sad. I think maybe we should jump over just to one other issue quickly because I think we might even have an opportunity either this week or next week to look at something also that has been on a lot of people's minds and that is the Patients' Bill of Rights, another issue that has been around since about 1999, 1998, that quite frankly passed this House in a present form that we could take up today, pass it and move it over to the Senate with a very similar piece of legislation and we could be putting the Patients' Bill of Rights on the President's desk. However, once again, and I heard some stuff today that I need to check out, but some of the things that are going to be stuck in this, like maybe some MSA stuff and some other areas that are going to make it kind of bog down again. This is such a critical issue in so many ways. One of the stories that I always tell and actually came from one of the editors of my newspapers who said, tell me about the Patients' Bill of Rights. We said, well, this would give the opportunity for children to go to their pediatricians and women to go to their obstetricians and all of these abilities for us to have a little bit of choice in our programs and who the doctor might be. But I think the underlying issue is somebody taking the responsibility of a mistake being made, because quite frankly when you have to take responsibility, less mistakes are made.”