Frank Pallone

I mean, I do not think most people could imagine that their doctor is not allowed to tell them something about their medical condition or possible treatment. It seems to go against the First Amendment, which it probably does if it ever…

What we do in our bill is to basically leave that up to the States. So it would be up to the State. If the State decides that they think that the HMO or the managed care organization should be liable in the circumstance, then they can. So…

Absolutely. Mr. Speaker, if I can comment on that, and one other thing that the gentleman said so eloquently, the reason is because when we talk about insurance plans that are basically for the self-employed, if you will, we have the ERISA…

The recess is over. We are back. We have gotten the message from Speaker Gingrich that he does not want to move on this tobacco settlement. We are sending the message back to the Republican leadership that that is not acceptable to us as…

There is no question. And I suppose another concern that I have, too, we have our work cut out for us, because we have the Republican leadership now saying that they are not going to go along with anything meaningful here, and we are going…

Because we saw this same kind of effort where we had bipartisan support on campaign finance reform, and we saw what happened on this floor in the effort to thwart a vote on real campaign finance reform.

No question, if we look at it. And I am very afraid that now that they have dropped the Joe Camel ads, that the new ads, I am sure the gentleman has seen some of these new Camel ads with the very bright colors and the psychedelic images…

There is also a direct relationship between the amount of advertising that the company does and the percentage of the youth market that they end up with. Again, from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, 86 percent of kids who smoke prefer…

You know the amazing thing to me, because you started to talk about implementing this, is that we have--you know, I understand we do a fairly good job compared to what would happen with the sales tax in terms of collecting taxes now, but…

Is it not also true, the way I understand this sales tax, this national sales tax, that the 30 percent sales tax will also be attached to goods and services that local and State governments purchase? So is it not likely that my local…

But behind the rhetoric and the calls to "scrap the code," that mantra, if you will, repeated over and over again to scrap the code, behind the rhetoric of that phrase lie some very radical and some dangerous proposals that will actually…

If I could point out another thing that is very unclear, it seems to me, and maybe the gentleman would respond to that right now, because he mentioned sale of a home, which is included in this proposal for the sales tax. We have people…

I want to say again, I thank both my colleagues for doing this special order tonight because I think this is a very important issue. Our constituents do care about it. It is a tragedy that we are not going to be allowed to actually vote on…

Is it not also true, Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman will continue to yield, I think the gentleman told me, if an individual does not want to participate in anything but the collective bargaining aspect of the union, they always have the…

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If I could interrupt the gentlewoman from Texas again, we had a perfect example of this, of course, with the drive-through deliveries for pregnant moms, where it had gotten to the point where many of the women, when they went to the…

But at least people, when they initially choose a plan, should have a choice that, if they want a point of service option so they can go outside the network, they can. That means they might have to pay a little more of a nominal fee; I do…

Exactly. It has got to be that that decision is made by the doctor with the patient, not by the insurance company. Unfortunately, that is getting to be the case with so many different types of care, not only mastectomies and child birth…

I think this issue of choice of doctors is so crucial to the whole emphasis that we as Democrats are putting on managed care reform. The President has talked about this, and, of course, as the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Green) mentioned…

I took to the floor at the time because I wanted to express my concern that we not waste our time here in the House of Representatives dealing with procedural matters about who had a task force and who paid for the task force and what…

I would like to see an honest debate on how we are going to cover these 40 million Americans that do not have insurance. But the problem here is that they do not bring up those things. The Republican leadership does not allow us to deal…

I think that the President sent a very strong message last night on a number of issues, managed care reform, expansion of Medicare to the near elderly. These are common sense ideas that have the support of the American people; and so we…

And such a simple concept. I want to yield to the gentleman, but even the disclosure part. We had a hearing last week in New Jersey, Senator Torricelli and I, and it was amazing how many of the stories just revolved around people's not…

And the most amazing thing, if the gentlewoman will remember last night when the President spoke and he mentioned the importance of having confidential medical records, and there was a huge roar of applause. And I said to myself, you know…