07/20/2011
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"This creates an environment then where insurers, not health professionals, will be making treatment decisions without opportunity for outside review."
"I am anxious to work with the gentleman if he will stop pushing this kind of nonsense legislation."
"Consumers in grandfathered health plans including those that have raised premiums, cut benefits or increased cost sharing would not have any federally guaranteed rights to internal and external appeal..."
"Does the legislation that we are discussing here allow patients to keep their insurance if they like it?"