Kevin Roberts said "If the Senator will yield, I think the Senator is exactly right. I am on the HELP Committee, as the Senator may recall, and I was trying to get one amendment to say that we would prohibit the use of rationing to achieve cost containment, and it involved several of the commissions that have been in the bill. I regret that bill sort of sat somewhere and collected dust. We never got a score. I thought it was, quite frankly, a better bill than the one in the Finance Committee. I say to the Senator, you recognized me, and I had an opportunity to offer some amendments. At least there was some debate. And I think it was a much more bipartisan effort. So I give the chairman----" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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If the Senator will yield, I think the Senator is exactly right. I am on the HELP Committee, as the Senator may recall, and I was trying to get one amendment to say that we would prohibit the use of rationing to achieve cost containment, and it involved several of the commissions that have been in the bill. I regret that bill sort of sat somewhere and collected dust. We never got a score. I thought it was, quite frankly, a better bill than the one in the Finance Committee. I say to the Senator, you recognized me, and I had an opportunity to offer some amendments. At least there was some debate. And I think it was a much more bipartisan effort. So I give the chairman----

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The speaker discusses efforts to amend a healthcare bill regarding cost containment and rationing.

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