William H. Frist said "I believe we should go back and look at the way the bill is written. This is a limited carve-out. This is not a huge carve-out. Basically, what this carve-out says is, because of the unique situation of the self-insured, self-administered plans, we are going to exempt them from lawsuits, based on contract, in Federal court--they are not going to be exempt from other lawsuits and in State courts, and based on medical decisions. So it is a limited carve-out. I do not want anybody who is watching this debate to think this is some huge carve-out. It is a carve-out on a limited basis. Our intent was to treat people equally who were in that unique circumstance. I say to my colleague from New Hampshire, this may not be perfect, but we think it improves the status quo. That is sort of what we are about today: Trying to improve the status quo." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJune 28, 2001

I believe we should go back and look at the way the bill is written. This is a limited carve-out. This is not a huge carve-out. Basically, what this carve-out says is, because of the unique situation of the self-insured, self-administered plans, we are going to exempt them from lawsuits, based on contract, in Federal court--they are not going to be exempt from other lawsuits and in State courts, and based on medical decisions. So it is a limited carve-out. I do not want anybody who is watching this debate to think this is some huge carve-out. It is a carve-out on a limited basis. Our intent was to treat people equally who were in that unique circumstance. I say to my colleague from New Hampshire, this may not be perfect, but we think it improves the status quo. That is sort of what we are about today: Trying to improve the status quo.

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William H. Frist

Tennessee

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the specifics of a bill related to self-insured, self-administered plans.

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