Frank Pallone: “If I could give the gentlewoman an example, just an example of this, when my wife and I had our son 2 years ago, they…”

“If I could give the gentlewoman an example, just an example of this, when my wife and I had our son 2 years ago, they had just implemented this policy with the pregnant women that they were only allowed the 2 days for a C-section, because he was born with a C-section. She had a C-section. As they were about to release him from the hospital for the 2 days, they had a pediatrician that was required, I think under the law, had to come in and look at him before he was checked out. They found that he was jaundiced. So they let him stay an extra day. They let her stay an extra day. If that had not happened and had not been detected, he could have easily gone out of the hospital, gotten worse with the jaundice, end up having to come back to the hospital and stayed a week or more, which would, of course, cost more money. So, to me, a lot of this is just preventative and actually saves the system money in the long run.”