There have been several ideas. Our colleague, Senator Conrad, has been talking about a cooperative option.
we must work together to develop targeted solutions that address access, affordability and quality for all Americans.
One of the suggestions here that's being talked about is to provide tax credits for smaller businesses.
It's a very modest pay or play requirement. We've not collected much revenue from it...
I think it's very important to recognize that the cost of covering every single American with health insurance is less t...
I mean, the reason that having a national health system would actually improve our public health is that the incentives ...
The value in this idea to those of us who are advocating something like this is to bend that cost.
There is a pay or play provision in the Massachusetts healthcare plan, is that correct?
If we do healthcare reform correctly, I believe you can take 45 percent of the costs out of the system because it's terr...
Very good. Thank you very much, Doctor. That was very helpful.
I want to thank my colleague from Wyoming, thank him for his support on this last vote we had on the tobacco issue, an h...
I urge my colleagues to reconsider this scattershot approach and work with me to tackle our biggest health problems in a...
I don't know of another issue that any of us either have dealt with or will deal with that will have an impact on every ...
We believe this would be a step in the wrong direction.
Thank you, Senator Dodd, and thank you and Senator Enzi and all the members of the committee and, of course, Chairman Ke...
We believe that everybody can be covered by--in a private insurance market with tax subsidies or tax credits...
It's a long time coming and no one, more than I do, wishes that Senator Kennedy was sitting in this chair and banging do...
Some of the programs proposed in this bill may have value, but this is the wrong bill and the wrong process.