Political Quotes

“it is time to bring managed care reform legislation to the floor. The quality of medical care for our citizens has declined considerably, and it is time to act now. Some patients are not getting the best medical care possible. Medical decisions are being made by insurance company bureaucrats, not by medical providers. If you are badly injured or severely ill, you should not have to worry about your insurance coverage. Patients should be able to obtain quality health care, whether or not they have acquired preauthorization for emergency room treatment. We need to focus on an anti-gag rule, which allows physicians to talk to their patients, an external-internal appeals process, employee choice of insurance, access to specialty care and decision-maker responsibility, which will make the managed care plan that authorizes or fails to authorize health care procedures, be as accountable as medical providers. Managed care is not inherently bad, but I do believe protections are needed immediately to protect the American people.”