Greg Ganske: “What is wrong with having some minimum safety standards for plans that Congress 25 years ago give a total exemption to?”

Let me just read to the gentleman a statement by Ari Fleischer today on this issue. The question to him was: Republicans and Democrats believe that the deal struck between Mr. Norwood and the President would abrogate State laws on…

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?

The underlying Ganske-Dingell bill does have access provisions that I think are bipartisan, for instance, 100 percent deductibility for the self-insured and other small business provisions to help increase access. There will be an…

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…