Greg Ganske: “Well, Mr. Speaker, one can negotiate with the PLO. Mr. Speaker, I am going to use the balance of the time to discuss…”

“Well, Mr. Speaker, one can negotiate with the PLO. Mr. Speaker, I am going to use the balance of the time to discuss managed care reform legislation that we are going to be debating here on the floor next week. I appreciate the Majority Leader and the Speaker of the House for setting up this debate for next week. The rumors are that we will be using the bipartisan consensus managed care bill as the base bill. That is the bill that I support. It is a strong managed care reform bill. We are uncertain at this time as to what type of rule we will have. I would request that we have a clean rule; in other words, a rule that is limited to patient protection legislation and does not involve tax matters for which one could then get into discussions about offsets and other difficult problems. Well, Mr. Speaker, humor sometimes shows that the public is aware of a problem. I remember, a few years ago, my wife and I went to the movie "As Good As It Gets." Many people saw this movie. It featured Helen Hunt and Mr. Nicholson. It was about a waitress played by Helen Hunt. She had a young son who had asthma. In one of the lines of the movie, which I cannot repeat here on the floor, Helen Hunt, with expletive waste language described her HMO as preventing her son who had asthma from getting the type of care that he needed.”