They've lost their ability to choose their health care professionals, and the heart of that is they're being denied care.
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We have five chairmen on our bill from the Republican conference, and that's very important. We're where we been trying to get to for three years, and that is to say to the leadership Listen, let's discuss this and let's come out with a bill this year that protects patients in reference to managed care. That's right where we are.Charlie Norwood
Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.
Charlie Norwood
We wanted to make sure people can choose their own doctor, ... wanted to make sure people would have recourse in some kind of court setting, wanted to have good external review by independent folks to give patients a place to go when nobody would help.
Charlie Norwood
Some lawmakers are also skeptical. This type of pay-for-performance program will give government bureaucrats more say over what's good treatment, ... a government bureaucrat will decide what performance we pay for.
Charlie Norwood
These talks are not for show, ... We hope to work out a compromise, and the president is committed to keeping the lines of communication open with Norwood throughout.
Charlie Norwood
If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.
Charlie Norwood
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