Sam Gibbons: “Napoleon Bonaparte once said that ``if you wanted to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.''…”

“Napoleon Bonaparte once said that ``if you wanted to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.'' But we all know how successful Napoleon fared. Yet, the supporters of the Ganske-Dingell Patients' Bill of Rights and its Senate equivalent seem to have forgotten the lessons of Napoleon Bonaparte. They are promising American families new patient protections and rights to health care. But, like Napoleon, they are promising everything and delivering nothing. The unlimited liability in their ``lawyer's right to sue'' bill will result in over 6 million Americans losing their health care insurance. What type of patient protection is that? Rather than doctors taking care of their health needs, Americans will be finding trial lawyers taking them to the cleaners. Americans deserve to get the health care they need and when they need it, a real promise we can keep and must deliver. Mr. Speaker, I encourage all of my colleagues to support a real Patients' Bill of Rights, the bipartisan Fletcher-Peterson Patients' Bill of Rights.”