Robert Weygand: “how many times have we heard about a woman being denied to designate her OB-GYN doctor as her primary care physician?…”

“how many times have we heard about a woman being denied to designate her OB-GYN doctor as her primary care physician? How many times have we heard about patients being denied emergency room care because an HMO bureaucrat has said no to the billing? How many times have we heard doctors say, we need more time to stay for this patient, but the HMO has said no? Sometimes these decisions cause harm, sometimes even death. The Declaration of Independence states that we are endowed with certainly unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Serving as the foundation for our Bill of Rights, it is now time to call for a true Patients' Bill of Rights, a Patients' Bill of Rights that will provide real access to emergency room care, will strengthen the doctor-patient relationship, and most importantly, most importantly, provide patients with the right to hold insurance companies for wrongdoing, to be able to sue them when they are wrong. Let us provide a true Patients' Bill of Rights, and declare a Declaration of Independence from the gag rules of HMOs. Please support a true Patients' Bill of Rights.”