This legislation creates a limited purpose trust fund to pay for care. Doctors and hospitals have agreed to waive one third of the debt. A copy of the message is attached. It will be available today, beginning at noon, and will run through the weekend. Hi, this is Governor Christie Whitman.
Nobody likes to be sick.
It's that much worse when you are sick and your health insurance plan goes bankrupt. That's a problem nobody should have to face. Yet when two of our state's health plans collapsed a couple of years ago, more than 200,000 patients faced the prospect of having no coverage. We were faced with a crisis. But the crisis was averted, thanks to our state's hospitals and doctors.