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Greg Ganske: “Well, we have had, Mr. Speaker, a great debate going on in the Senate this week on the Patients' Bill of Rights; and I…”

On the recordJune 28, 2001
Well, we have had, Mr. Speaker, a great debate going on in the Senate this week on the Patients' Bill of Rights; and I have been watching this with great interest, because for the past 5 years I have been working on this issue, and I have been coming to the floor frequently, just about every week, in order to give a Special Order talk on the status of legislation to help protect patients from abuses by HMOs. I am looking forward to the day when we pass a strong Patients' Bill of Rights piece of legislation on this floor to go along with what I think will be a strong Patients' Bill of Rights coming out of the Senate, that we marry those two bills together, that we add some important access provisions, such as an expansion of medical savings accounts, tax deductibility for the self-employed, and we move that down to the President's desk.
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Greg Ganske
Republican · Iowa
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Discussing the ongoing debate in the Senate regarding the Patients' Bill of Rights.

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