Eva M. Clayton: “When a child has a disease that can be cured, should the decision of whether to provide needed treatment be made by a…”

“When a child has a disease that can be cured, should the decision of whether to provide needed treatment be made by a doctor and the child's parents or by bureaucrats who are counting dollars and cents? When a wife or mother has had a mastectomy and the procedure has not yet worn off, should she be forced to leave the hospital because of a rigid routine for saving dollars rather than saving lives? When a husband and a father is unable to get prior approval from the insurance who he is paying for an emergency, should he be required to pay that medical bill himself? When a grandfather is stricken with a life-threatening stroke, should the person transporting him be required to pass a hospital that is closest to him to go to one that is further away because a narrow-thinking person is more interested in saving dollars than, again, in saving lives? H.R. 3605, which is the Patients' Bill of Rights, the Democrat substitute, indeed speaks to a number of basic rights that all of these patients that I just described should have and not have to suffer.”