Thomas Daschle: “That is the irony, I would say to the Senator from Massachusetts. And the real sad thing is that this goes beyond the…”

“That is the irony, I would say to the Senator from Massachusetts. And the real sad thing is that this goes beyond the bill. This goes to the fact that 3,000 kids a day start smoking. It goes to the tremendous number of victims of managed care abuses all over this country, in every State of the Union, who have said if you do anything in Congress this year, we want you to fix managed care. We don't want you to wait until we lose more people. We want you to solve this problem this year. And that is what we are trying to do. We have 10 weeks to go, fewer than 40 legislative days. If we don't do it now, when are we going to do it? The Senator from Massachusetts makes a very important point.”