Political Quotes

“A patients' bill of rights should be about helping patients: someone who has just received the bad news from her doctor that she faces a life-threatening illness requiring extensive and expensive medications, a parent, who has a child with a serious disability, a family that has been shocked by an accidental injury to a bread winner. With the patient already at a disadvantage, and then further disadvantaged by an abusive insurance company, this Congress has to decide today whether it wants to provide patient protections or insurance loopholes. The kind of bill that is being advanced by our Republican colleagues is a little like the fine print of some worthless insurance policy that promises much, but in the fine print limits coverage only to those struck by lightning on a summer's midnight during leap year. That is the kind of protection, riddled with countless loopholes for insurers, that Republicans would afford. In Texas, we stood and chose. We chose the patient and adopted a model law that the rest of the Nation has looked to for our patients' bill of rights.”