Charlie Norwood
Charlie Norwood
Charles Whitlow "Charlie" Norwood, Jr., D.D.S.was an American politician and dentist, serving as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 until his death in 2007. At the time of his death, Norwood was the Representative of the 10th District of Georgia...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 July 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.
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Our governor took care of it...that's who I want to take care of it,
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People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening.
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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.
When they hear from you, it counts. That's how we're going to win.
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none of this is any good unless we can get a signature, and we're moving, I think, in the right direction.
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The congresspersons who are co-sponsoring the bill are being beat up in their districts with negative advertising. We need to go to them and say we understand; we're here to help and on your side.
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Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters.
ideas care cost
There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it.
taken home issues
We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.
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You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town.
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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.
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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.
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The president has committed to sign our bill with this amendment, ... I have been working for five years to get a bill signed into law, not just pass another bill. Like it or not, we have to work with this president.