Political Quotes

“I rise in support of a Patients' Bill of Rights. We need a Patients' Bill of Rights in this country. I spent most of last year working on a conference committee to get a Patients' Bill of Rights. I am told by more senior colleagues that we spent more time meeting as members than on any other bill they could remember. We got that close to having an agreement. In fact, people could see that we were going to get agreement on a Patients' Bill of Rights. There were some people who chose to have it as an issue instead of a solution. That is why we are back again working on a Patients' Bill of Rights. We do need a Patients' Bill of Rights but not this one, the way it reads. I will give some rebuttal to a McCain-Kennedy factsheet on protecting employers. The sponsors of the bill distributed a white paper to the Democrat caucus, and I can't let that go unrebutted. This is the assertion: Employers are explicitly protected from liability in almost every case. But that is not what the bill says. For the record, let me say that you would need a bushel basket of breadcrumbs to weave your way through this bill without getting lost. I tried at first with string, but it got so interwoven I thought it was macrame. This is going to be extremely hard to follow.”