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On the recordJune 28, 2001
Frankly, I do not think this is a huge deal. The reality is that the vast majority of businesses will go under designated decisionmaker, and, in fact, we provide in the bill that it is automatic. That will just happen unless they make a conscious decision to say: We do not want to do the designated decisionmaker; we want to go under the direct participation language. We are in an unknown area, and I do not think anyone knows how this is going to play out entirely in the real world and what decisions they are going to make. Some people come up with some scenarios under which they would not want to designate someone as a designated decisionmaker. The vast majority are. We wanted to provide this as a fallback position, more options. I do not think it is going to make it more ambiguous or less definite because we provide automatically it is going to be designated decisionmaker unless they make an action and say: No, we do not want designated decisionmaker; we want to go with our model because for some reason it works that way.
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William H. Frist
Tennessee

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Discussing the rationale behind a bill regarding decision-making options for employers.

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