Karen Thurman: “What you are actually saying to us tonight and obviously I have been…”

On the recordOctober 25, 2000

What you are actually saying to us tonight and obviously I have been here, too, but sometimes I think we need to make these points very clear, because I think quite frankly that the American public is tired of people who have not been trained as physicians making decisions, that this House, in a fairly good vote, a bipartisan vote, Democrats and Republicans coming together, a consensus, believing that the patients' bill of rights that would allow the choices, the decision making to return to physicians was passed. And if I remember correctly, there were actually instructions on this floor even after the conferees had been chosen that we said in again a bipartisan fashion that we asked for the conferees to at least be Members who had voted with the majority of the membership of this House, the people's House. They said to us, put the conferees on that believe as we do. And that passed.

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Karen Thurman

Democratic · Florida

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Discussing the importance of the patients' bill of rights and the role of physicians in decision-making.

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Karen Thurman: “What you are actually saying to us tonight and obviously I have been here, too, but sometimes I think we need to make…”

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