Senate Proceeding 10-14-09 on Oct 14th, 2009 :: 3:39:45 to 3:41:45
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Judd Gregg: better by surance more affordable for folks who can't afford it mr. gregg: the senator from georgia leads in the way i want to disclose this discussion. there are ways to reduce the cost of health care in this country and to make it better. make it better. let's take, for example,

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Speech By: Judd Gregg

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Judd Gregg: malpractice reform. abusive lawsuit reform. none of that is in the finan committee bill. we should have something there. the president says he's for it, we should do something in that area. c.b.o. scores it as a $64 billion savings. that is not chicken feed. that's a big number. so we should have malpractice reform.

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Judd Gregg: we should have proposals which basically incentivize employers to have healthier lifestyles. it's called hipaa reform. that is not in the finance committee. it's very easy to do. u just give people the incentive and you give peopl the ability to say to someone if you stop smoking, if you live a healthier lifestyle by reducing

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Judd Gregg: your weight, if you te the test you need to take in the area of health care like colonoscopies. you can't do that in the finance bill and only to a lesser degree under the kennedy-dodd bill or the harkin bill. there are specific diseases which we should target.

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Judd Gregg: you know, such as obesity alzheimer's. there are a whole series of healthy lifestyle. there are things we can do in a step-by-step manner which will get us much farther down the road toward quality health care this massive expansion of health care through massive expansion of an entitlement which will

3:41:32 to 3:41:45( Edit History Discussion )

Judd Gregg: lead inevitably to a huge debt ing passed to our children. three groups are going to pay for this bill. one is senior citizens who are going to pay for the cuts in medicare. two are small businesses who are