Senate Proceeding 07-28-09 on Jul 28th, 2009 :: 1:41:10 to 1:46:40
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Speech By: Ron Wyden

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Ron Wyden: as i outlined the free choice approach and the pathwayly to savings for middle-class folks, portable coverage, for prevention, it could work its w a variety of different bills that are b obviously, senator bennett and i

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Ron Wyden: feel very strongly about our legislation, "the healthy americans act." but i was very pleased with the discussion that i had the other night over dinner with the distinguished senator from connecticut, the chairman of the "help" committee, who has some good ideas

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Ron Wyden: what i hope we'll d senator bennett and i have sought to do lo these many months, is focus on some bedck principles. i cited the three that have been important to president obama, the question of holding down costs, ensuring choice, maintaing quality. i believe -- senator bennett and

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Ron Wyden: i have worked together on this -- that our approach with free choice, and particularly making sure that you don't have all these fire walls that could resist choice for americans. and it's one of the concerns i brought up to chairman dod we would have real free choice and all americans would be in a

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Ron Wyden: position to participate as members of congress do in a system that rewards tm for shopping wisely. so i was very glad that both chairman baucus, who said he would look at our free choice proposal, chairman dodd, same

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Ron Wyden: openness to proposal, captured that this would be a way to carry out the president's agenda f agenda for addressing the questions about all over the country. obviously, senator bennett and i and we're very pleased that the distinguished senator from

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Ron Wyden: delaware has -- has joined us, certainly a veteran of the senate and what it takes to come up with bipartisan coalitions. i'm very pleased to be on the floor with two good friends who know a lot about health care and what it takes to build bipartisan coalitions. what i wanted to do was to say that in addition to our

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Ron Wyden: legislation, which we obviously feel strongly about, this concept of free making sure that you reward individuals, as we do in so many areas of american life, could for middle-class people in terms of savings and access to quality

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Ron Wyden: health care. and i'm very hopeful that as we go into these last couple of weeks before the recess - we've offered this chairman baucus, the chairman of the committee on which i serv serve -- democrats and republicans can come together so that before the august, you

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Ron Wyden: part of a system that is very similar to what enjoys. and it has paid or for my family at the beginning of the when i choose a plan that is more economical prevention then we get behind proposals that bring democrats and republicans together. mr. president, and colleagues, i

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Ron Wyden: would point out this is one area that the budget office has indicated will actually score substantial savings not in 10, 12, 14 years from now, but, really, in the second y it is fully implemented. mr. president, again, i thank my

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Ron Wyden: colleague from utah for all his support and with that, mr. p yield the floor. mr. bennett: mr. president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll.