Key Manufacturing
Vote Card - Patients' Bill of Rights (House),
10-99
October 6, 1999
Dear Representative:
On behalf of the more than 14,000
members of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM),
including approximately 10,000 small manufacturers, I urge you
to cast a "nay" vote on the Norwood-Dingell (H.R. 2723)
managed care bill, and any other legislation or amendment that
would increase liability for plans or employers.
The NAM will consider votes
throughout this debate as candidates for designation as a
Key Manufacturing Vote in the NAM’s Voting Record for
the 106th Congress. These votes may include—but are
not limited to—the following issues:
- The Norwood-Dingell
"Bipartisan Consensus Managed Care Improvement Act" (H.R.
2723) or similar proposals;
- Any
form of health care
liability for employers or health plans.
"Medical necessity"
provisions; and
Other health insurance
mandates.
The NAM opposes any legislation
that would drive up costs, leave employers open to medical
malpractice and personal injury suits, increase the
government’s role in the health care delivery system or shift
funds from health care to trial lawyers through the creation
of new causes for litigation against plans and insurers. By
holding employers and health plans liable, manufacturers will
be forced to reduce benefits, shift the increased costs to
employees, or drop health coverage all
together.
Sincerely,
Jerry
Jasinowski
President
October 7,
1999
Dear Representative:
Yesterday, on a "Key Vote" card
similar to this, I wrote to you in opposition to the
Norwood-Dingell (H.R. 2723) managed care bill. To reaffirm our
position, I urge you today to cast a "no" vote on the
Norwood-Dingell bill and a "yes" vote on the Boehner
amendment.
The NAM would prefer that
Congress take the limited step of adopting only well-crafted
binding external review. This approach would ensure health
plan accountability without jeopardizing existing
employer-based health coverage – as the Norwood-Dingell bill
would do. The Boehner bill is the only bill that presents this
option.
I urge your caution in evaluating
the respective amendments today. We hope that when our members
and their employees see the results of this vote, we are in a
position to tell them their Congressman did the right thing.
Above all else, though, I urge you to vote "no" on the
Norwood-Dingell bill and "yes" on the Boehner bill.
Sincerely,
Jerry
Jasinowski
President
*Votes considered for
designation as NAM Key Manufacturing Votes are approved in
advance by
our members who serve on the Key Vote Advisory
Committee. Eligibility for the NAM's Award
for
Manufacturing Legislative Excellence for the 106th Congress
will be based on a member's
record on Key Manufacturing
Votes.
 To see how your member(s) of
Congress voted on this and other issues of interest to
manufacturers, click here.
| 
.gif){kind=tracking}
