On the recordMarch 9, 1995
The European Community provides cradle to grave medical care for all of its citizens. We do not do that in the United States. So the statute of repose which says that after 15 years you cannot sue somebody for making a defective product has a provision attached to it that says that does not count if the person would be made unable to get their medical care paid for. Only if they have been able to cover their medical care does the manufacturer have a defective product escape liability 15 years after it is manufactured. It is a great irony. Of all things, we ask for time to offer amendments to make an extremely unreasonable bill a little more reasonable. They do not grant time on the reasonable amendments. They grant time to the chairman of the committee, who could have written the bill any way he wanted to, to make the bill worse for the average person. A 15-year statute of repose is a new addition to American law.
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