Greg Ganske: “I think working in that grocery store was one of the best training periods of my entire life.”

I want to salute the passion of the gentleman from Alaska (Chairman Young) and the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mica) and the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Lipinski). I know how much all of…

As a physician in the earlier 1990s when I was taking care of Medicare patients, sometimes we would do a procedure where it might or might not be considered medically necessary by Medicare. All that we wanted was to know whether Medicare…

So he stands by his statement that HMOs are treated better in his amendment than others. Now, is it the gentleman's understanding that his bill would abrogate State laws on patients' rights?

In preempting State law, the Norwood amendment goes beyond conduct that involves negligent medical judgment to a particular patient's case. The amendment made by virtue of the words 'based on' stipulate that State malpractice law does not…