Frank Pallone: “Again, if I could ask you to elaborate a little more on this, one of the concerns that I expressed earlier this evening…”

“Again, if I could ask you to elaborate a little more on this, one of the concerns that I expressed earlier this evening is that the Republican Task Force would come out with patient protections that are less than what is in the Patient Bill of Rights or the PARCA bill, and that is still a concern. But I think what you are voicing now is an additional problem which is not only the possibility of not including some of these patient protections that we would like to see, but also the possibility of adding other things unrelated to patient protections that would sort of muddy the water, if you will, and maybe confuse what goes on here and take away from this issue of patient protection which we are trying to bring forward. And I know that one of the things I believe you mentioned was the medical malpractice cap, I guess, that we have discussed in the past, and that is something that would.”