Charles Norwood: “If the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Jones] would yield further, as we are headed toward conclusion, I want to…”

“If the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Jones] would yield further, as we are headed toward conclusion, I want to point out another thing that has happened in this contract that drives me crazy. It is one of the reasons why the American people lose faith in their Government. It is one of the things that I think make people dislike a strong Federal Government. We have talked about this great big insurance company spreading bad information around this small community of 70,000 people about the providers because the providers won't come to work for them for nothing. Then we are talking about this large company that then says to the providers, the dental care providers, 'Well, if you don't come to work for us, we're going to close you, we're going to build this big office in town and import people from out of town to take care of it.' But the icing on the cake to me is now Concordia, this big insurance company, has called in the Federal Government, has called in the Federal Trade Commission, and it said, 'Come get 'em, they're bad guys, they've actually been talking about what this costs.' Now, it is perfectly legal for Concordia to set the price of the cost of dental care across the Nation. But if two dentists in Jacksonville, NC, sit down to talk about what this does to their practice and how it affects them, we get the Federal Trade Commission lawyers running in at the behest of Concordia.”