Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, we have a clear choice. If you want to provide protection for your constituents for full access to emergency care with symptoms with severe pain; if you want to provide your constituents with a choice of doctors within their HMOs, access to specialists like cancer specialists, women adequate care for mastectomies and the right for reconstructive surgery, that will provide continuing care if the HMO drops a doctor so you can continue to see that doctor until you get to a new doctor; if you want to provide your constituents with clinical trials and experimental treatment which may be the only way to save their life; if you want them to have the latest drugs that your doctor thinks are needed; if you want to make sure that an HMO has enough doctors and locations so your constituents can get to see the doctor; if you want to provide all these protections to your constituents, then you must vote for the Ganske-Dingell substitute, because the Republican bill does not provide those protections to your constituents and does not provide for adequate enforcement. The choice is clear. I urge my colleagues to support the amendment.”