We are very proud of the fact that we have removed the financial incentive from the decisionmaking around medicine.
I've chaired or been the ranking member over the years of the Subcommittee on Children and Families.
We need to get this right and so we need your involvement and your participation if we're going to do this.
I mean, the reason that having a national health system would actually improve our public health is that the incentives completely change.
It's a very modest pay or play requirement. We've not collected much revenue from it...
One of the suggestions here that's being talked about is to provide tax credits for smaller businesses.
There have been several ideas. Our colleague, Senator Conrad, has been talking about a cooperative option.
We would appreciate any data and statistics which you think would be helpful to the committee, as well.
We know how to solve these problems. We have to change the structures of our payment so that we're paying for quality treatment processes an...
We believe that everybody can be covered by--in a private insurance market with tax subsidies or tax credits...
we must work together to develop targeted solutions that address access, affordability and quality for all Americans.
Nobody's left out. From the time that you're born until the time you die, you have access to healthcare.
Thank you, Senator Dodd, and thank you and Senator Enzi and all the members of the committee and, of course, Chairman Kennedy, for the commi...
So are members of this committee.
NFIB supports, and helped develop, the SHOP Act sponsored by Senators Durbin, Snowe, and Lincoln.
I have to agree with Senator Enzi.
Congress must also make sure affordable coverage is available and to subsidize those who cannot afford it.
Some of the programs proposed in this bill may have value, but this is the wrong bill and the wrong process.
