Political Quotes

“this amendment is very clear. It deals with the same action that the underlining resolution deals with, and that is the action of the health care task force that the President constituted. This amendment would make it clear in the sense of Congress that we want to consider on the floor as quickly as possible legislation that would provide national quality standards for health care plans. I make specific reference to two bills, and I do that intentionally, one by the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Norwood), a Republican, and one by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell), a Democrat, because I know that there is bipartisan support for quality standards for managed care programs. By the number of cosponsors of these bills, it is clear that the majority of the Members of this House want this body to take up standards to protect our consumers in managed care programs so that medical decisions can be made by medical professionals and not health insurance bureaucrats.”