Senate Proceeding on Nov 19th, 2009 :: 1:07:55 to 1:10:20
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1:07:54 to 1:08:14( Edit History Discussion )

John Thune: trillions and trillions of dollars. mr. president, obviously, health care i one of the most important issues that congress is going to take up this year and maybe in our careers, in our careers in the senate, this may be the most important issue and the most important bill that we are ever asked to vote upon. i travel home to wyoming every weekend. i talk to people. i have been there for five days

1:07:55 to 1:10:20( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: John Thune

1:08:15 to 1:08:37( Edit History Discussion )

John Thune: over veterans day. i say what do you need, what do you think, what are your thoughts on all of this? and i hear it over and over again, and they say deliver to washington a clear and a simple message: fix what is wrong with the health care system. whatever you do, don't make things worse for me. and ask people do you think that

1:08:38 to 1:08:58( Edit History Discussion )

John Thune: it's going to cost more or less if this gets passed? and i had aelephone town hall meeting with lots of folks all around the state of wyoming just the other night. there is a way you can poll in those things and ask people their ideas. people believe it's going to cost them more. we say is your care going to be better or worse? people believe their care is going to be worse. they're going to be paying more

1:08:59 to 1:09:19( Edit History Discussion )

John Thune: and getting less, and that is not the kind of value that the people of wyoming or the people of america want and it's not the kind of work they expect out of congress. they want us to fix what is wrong with the health care system. and as senator alexander said a little earlier, step by step in the right direction, dealing with the things that we can do to improve the system.

1:09:20 to 1:09:40( Edit History Discussion )

John Thune: whatever you do, they say, don't make matters worse for me because that's what people care about. that's what people care about in the town hall meetings. we have the telephone town hall meetings, the meetings in person. they raise their hands and they say what does this mean for me, what does this mean for my family, what's it going to mean to our health care, what happens if i get sick? that's what people care about. none of them are going to want

1:09:41 to 1:10:01( Edit History Discussion )

John Thune: to read this bill. none of them are going to read this bl. finally, it's on the internet after weeks behind closed doors. finally it's there so people can read it, and i hope the people of wyoming and america do read this so they traficant cities that are in this bill -- about the traficanties in this bill and the impact on each of them.

1:10:02 to 1:10:20( Edit History Discussion )

John Thune: it's not just me saying it. yesterday, there was an article in "the wall street journal," the dean of harvard medical school -- th harvard medical. it's in boston, which is where they have this whole massachusetts health care plan. he said it's not worked in massachusetts, and this is not going to work for america. he gave the -- he gave the health care bill that we're