Angie Craig: “the hour is late, but the Kyl amendment is important. There is no sham here at all. It is the marketplace at…”

“the hour is late, but the Kyl amendment is important. There is no sham here at all. It is the marketplace at work--voluntarily to provide the employee with options. The employer must provide health care programs if they are going to provide health care programs that fit this bill, that fit the Patients' Bill of Rights, but in doing so they also can provide a voluntary option if the employee chooses to take it, which simply says you waive your rights to a lawsuit. And guess what. It might cost that employee less money. Yet he and she, and their families, might still be covered. Isn't that a reasonable option and a voluntary option to provide to the marketplace? How dare we say that every attorney ought to have a right here? Why not say every employee has a right to a marketplace of options that this voluntary approach that the Senator from Arizona provides gives to the health care system of our country? I support the amendment.”