I don't know of another issue that we've grappled with as complex as this and one that deserves our undivided attention.
I think to say that we have to hold coverage hostage to cost control is to say we're going to hold this small piece host...
We need to get this right and so we need your involvement and your participation if we're going to do this.
We'll let you go.
We want to be able to have primary care physicians encouraged to take the time to do the counseling, to do the diet coun...
We know how to solve these problems. We have to change the structures of our payment so that we're paying for quality tr...
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 would appreciate any data and statistics which you think would be helpful to the committee, as well.
There have been several ideas. Our colleague, Senator Conrad, has been talking about a cooperative option.
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 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 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.
