Political Quotes

“At the end of the Committee amendment, insert the following new title: TITLE --PROTECTION OF PATIENT COMMUNICATIONS SEC. 01. SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS. (a) Short Title.--This title may be cited as the ``Patient Communications Protection Act of 1996''. (b) Findings.--Congress finds the following: (1) Patients need access to all relevant information to make appropriate decisions, with their physicians, about their health care. (2) Restrictions on the ability of physicians to provide full disclosure of all relevant information to patients making health care decisions violate the principles of informed consent and practitioner ethical standards. (3) The offering and operation of health plans affect commerce among the States. Health care providers located in one State serve patients who reside in other States as well as that State. In order to provide for uniform treatment of health care providers and patients among the States, it is necessary to cover health plans operating in one State as well as those operating among the several States.”