Greg Ganske: “Reclaiming my time, I can guarantee my colleague that this young woman did not have the $12,000 to $15,000 that her HMO…”

“Reclaiming my time, I can guarantee my colleague that this young woman did not have the $12,000 to $15,000 that her HMO refused to pay. And neither would most people in this country. So, I think that I would encourage all of our constituents from around the country to rise up in arms on this, to say, look, Congress may have killed tobacco legislation that would help prevent youngsters from smoking, maybe they are going to obfuscate on campaign finance reform. But I will tell my colleagues, there is one thing that Congress had darn well better do before it leaves because my daughter or my son's health may depend on it or my mother's or fathers's or my employees', and that is Congress needs to fix the mess that it has made in the past related to health plans and managed care. If Congress does not handle this problem, we are going to hold you personally, congressman or congresswoman, responsible for doing this and we will hold the leadership responsible. I will tell my colleagues, I am hearing from all over the country on this. The water is building up behind this dam on this issue. And I will just have to say that sometimes it takes remarkable actions to get the leadership of this House and the Senate to do what they ought to do for the betterment of our constituents. We very well may be looking at that in the very near future.”