• "The fifth guideline for a patients' bill of rights ensures that Americans will have access to affordable health care coverage. I want to sign protections that improve medical care, not make it impossible for patients to afford it, or employers to provide coverage. Excess and frivolous litigation does harm to our health care system. It clogs the courts and consumes time and money. It undermines the trust between doctor and patient. It drives up insurance premiums for everyone."

The president also stated that a patients' bill of rights law should guarantee that women and parents should not have to go through a "gatekeeper" to gain access to their gynecologist or pediatrician. 

In addition, the president stated that all patients should be allowed to take part in clinical trials preformed to test new and potentially life-saving methods of treatment.

Suggesting that the key to patients' rights is effective medical review that maintains the doctor-patient relationship, the president concluded, "if they say you need the care, your health care plan must provide it."