Greg Ganske: “I wish to speak for the remainder of this evening about managed care reform. One of these days we are going to pass…”

“I wish to speak for the remainder of this evening about managed care reform. One of these days we are going to pass this, and my friend from New Jersey and I will maybe have to stop passing like ships in the middle of the night, coming to the floor to speak about this issue. But, Mr. Speaker, it has become I think commonplace knowledge that we have problems with managed care in this country. That is recognized by a lot of the humor that we see in the country. Several years ago, a joke started going around the country about the three doctors who died and went to heaven. The first doctor was a neurosurgeon. St. Peter asked him, 'What did you do for a living?' He said, 'I took care of victims of automobile crashes who had injured their heads and tried to get them back to a normal life.' St. Peter said, 'Enter, my son, and enjoy heaven.' The next doctor who came up to the pearly gates was asked by St. Peter what he did. He said, 'I was a heart surgeon and I took care of people who were having heart attacks and managed to prolong their lives so that they could spend them with their families.' St. Peter said, 'Enter, my daughter, and enjoy heaven.' The third doctor who came up to the Pearly Gates was asked by St. Peter, 'What did you do?'”