On the recordJune 29, 2000
let us listen to what people say who have to enforce the law. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky again says, the stated goal of this bill is to promote quality of patient care. The labor exemption, however, was not created to solve issues regarding the ultimate quality of products or services consumers receive. Collective bargaining rights are designed to raise the incomes and improve working conditions of union members. We do not rely on the United Auto Workers to bargain for safer cars. Joe Klein, assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, says this about 1304: The AMA could pull every single doctor together or its local doctors and go to each and every HMO or managed care program and say we will not work for you unless you pay us X. That is unprecedented, irrational economic power. That is all the doctors are asking for.
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