Political Quotes

“I am happy to join him in calling for immediate passage of a real Patients' Bill of Rights. We have a real opportunity to pass a meaningful Patients' Bill of Rights this year. After 5 years of heated debate, the U.S. Senate passed a meaningful Patients' Bill of Rights with protections for both patients and employers. Opponents of this measure argue that the legislation will result in a landslide of frivolous lawsuits against employers, but that is simply not true. We have a Patients' Bill of Rights in Texas for more than 4 years, now since 1997. In that time, we have had only 17 lawsuits filed. That is right, only 17 lawsuits. But, at the same time, we have had more than 1,000 patients cases where patients appealed a denied claim to an independent review organization, an IRO. In more than half of those cases, the IRO ruled in favor of the patient.”