Lizzie Fletcher: “As a family physician, one of the things that you learn to recognize very early is that some things need to be done in a…”

“As a family physician, one of the things that you learn to recognize very early is that some things need to be done in a timely basis and other things can wait. This needs to be done, I think, in a basis that we can get this accomplished, because this has been debated for at least 6 years, even longer. I think the first Patients' Bill of Rights in this body was offered in 1991. Anyone, I say anyone and everyone who has been engaged in this debate, is familiar with all the language in all of these amendments. I woke up this morning and got over here to read the bill very early, it is 30 pages long, very easy to read, very understandable for those folks who have dealt with this issue for a long time. It is something not uncommon here. Five hours is plenty of time for folks to understand what this bill does. I commend the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Norwood). He has been willing, and maybe let me say very willing, to finally say let us put patients above politics, let us break away, let us stop the logjam, let us get a bill that the President will sign.”