Dick Durbin: “My last question to the Senator: If this sense of the Congress is not worth the paper it is written on, as the Senator…”

“My last question to the Senator: If this sense of the Congress is not worth the paper it is written on, as the Senator has said, is it fair to conclude that since the HMOs and managed care companies prevailed before when the Senator from Massachusetts offered his Patients' Bill of Rights to protect individuals from insurance companies making medical decisions, is it fair to conclude that if S. 11 were enacted as written, limiting the liability of these HMO and insurance companies, these companies would win again, that we would reward them again for bad conduct, despite the sense of the Senate, sense of Congress, section 13 of this bill?”