Connie Morella said "I want to encourage the conferees to maintain the many noncontroversial provisions in H.R. 2723 in the conference report, such as the requirements that managed care patients have access to emergency care without prior authorization; access to specialized treatment when it is medically necessary in the judgment of a health professional; and access to approved clinical trials where the plan must pay for the routine patient costs associated with the trials. Also, I want to encourage the conferees to exclude medical savings accounts in the FEHBP. I oppose MSAs because they would cause cherrypicking in the FEHBP, resulting in higher premiums for those who are less healthy as relatively healthy enrollees are included. So I just ask the conferees to meet, to resolve it. I believe that the Speaker is going to have a bill before us that will be bipartisan and that we can all agree on." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordFebruary 1, 2000

I want to encourage the conferees to maintain the many noncontroversial provisions in H.R. 2723 in the conference report, such as the requirements that managed care patients have access to emergency care without prior authorization; access to specialized treatment when it is medically necessary in the judgment of a health professional; and access to approved clinical trials where the plan must pay for the routine patient costs associated with the trials. Also, I want to encourage the conferees to exclude medical savings accounts in the FEHBP. I oppose MSAs because they would cause cherrypicking in the FEHBP, resulting in higher premiums for those who are less healthy as relatively healthy enrollees are included. So I just ask the conferees to meet, to resolve it. I believe that the Speaker is going to have a bill before us that will be bipartisan and that we can all agree on.

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Connie Morella

Maryland

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Editor's note · Context

Advocating for bipartisan HMO reform during a House floor debate.

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