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On the recordJune 10, 1999
--and health insurance companies, which happen to fall under the provision in Federal law which says--we are debating this, incidentally, on the Patients' Bill of Rights--if they denied coverage to you, they only have to pay for the cost of the procedure, as opposed to all the terrible things that might have happened to them. As I understand this bill, from the amendment by the Senator from North Carolina, there are strict limitations here on what a person whose business is damaged can recover.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Discussing the implications of the Patients' Bill of Rights and insurance company liability.

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