Senate Proceeding on Sep 30th, 2009 :: 0:41:05 to 0:42:20
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Robert Bennett: the senator from utah may have other thoughts about the importance of reading the bill. mr. bennett: mr. president, i just make this respect to the senator from tennessee's reference to the congressional budget office. we need hard numbers, but we do have preliminary understanding already.

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Speech By: Robert Bennett

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Robert Bennett: the director of the c.b.o., mr. elmendor true that the fees established in the bill would ultimately be passed on down to the health care consumer, and -- and i quote -- "our judgment is that the piece of legislation would close quote. if you go more deeply into the

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Robert Bennett: c.b.o. analysis, you find not only would premiums in the individual market be higher than under the proposed reforms, but taxes on insurers, drugs and devices would be passed on to consumers in the form of higher premiums. and finally, that the premiums would be extremely high even after the proposed reforms because the

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Robert Bennett: taxpayers would be expensive plans. so we clearly need the kind o