Frank Pallone: “I am totally convinced that anything that comes to the floor somehow procedurally, the majority's will will prevail and…”

“I am totally convinced that anything that comes to the floor somehow procedurally, the majority's will will prevail and we will be able to get a good bill. Even if the Republican leadership comes with a bad bill to the floor, we will do amendments, we will do substitutes, we will do whatever and we will be able to overcome it and come up with a good bill. I am just afraid we never see it. That I think is again the special interest, the health insurance industry, which unfortunately does not want to see the changes that this bill does. Basically what the bill does, if you want to sum it up in maybe one or two sentences, is it says that decisions about what kind of medical care you are going to get, what is medically necessary, are made not by the insurance company but by the physician and the patient. They do not want that. The second thing is that if you are denied, as you mentioned, that you have a legitimate way to express your grievance, either through an independent, outside board or to go to court, and they do not want that, either.”