Greg Ganske: “Let me just finish in reading the conclusion from Professors Rosenbaum, Frankford, and Rosenblatt. "The central purpose…”

“Let me just finish in reading the conclusion from Professors Rosenbaum, Frankford, and Rosenblatt. "The central purpose underlying the enactment of Federal patient protection legislation is to expand protections for the vast majority of insured Americans whose health benefits are derived from private nongovernmental employment and who, thus, come within the orbit of ERISA. Not only would the GOP Senate measure not accomplish this goal, but, worse, it appears to be little more than a vehicle for protecting managed care companies from various forms of legal liability under current law. Viewed in this light, congressional passage of the Senate GOP bill would be far worse than were Congress to enact no measure at all." Now that is a sad commentary on a bill. But as I have been looking through the Nickles bill, I can come to almost every page and have questions about the legislative language. I will just talk about this one. One of the things that we should be able to reach a bipartisan consensus on is how do you do an external review and should the external reviewer be independent?”