3 December 2020 Ron Wyden When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply – the lower the price. The higher the demand – the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American’s rights into consideration.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers’ unaffordable insurance or going without health care.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don’t like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden Under the Healthy Americans Act, you’re in charge of your health care – not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can’t find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden Men and women who have served in harm’s way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say ‘If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.’ But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden It’s correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions – many of the system’s most expensive patients to treat – they received astounding results.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto their employees.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don’t.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away.
