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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 16, 2011

You mentioned these young people who feel like they're not going to have to worry about health care, and therefore--either it's too expensive for them or they just don't want to buy it.

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 16, 2011

Little did the States know that when they were being invited to dinner by the White House on Obama Care, they were on the menu.

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 16, 2011

You really believe that the current--the so-called Affordable Care Act is going to be able to save money over the long run?

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Jeff Flake
@jeffflake· Republican · AZ· Mar 16, 2011

I would question in a time of budget austerity that maybe we have authorized that program.

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Hiram Bennet
@hirambennet· Democratic · CO· Mar 16, 2011

This part of the puzzle is getting a lot of high praise in our State.

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Hiram Bennet
@hirambennet· Democratic · CO· Mar 16, 2011

The States themselves would decide, not the Federal Government, but the States would decide to come together, in those instances, you could have a marketplace that extended across State lines for insurance.

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Hiram Bennet
@hirambennet· Democratic · CO· Mar 16, 2011

I'm proud that in Colorado we've already had 11 hearings in our State to talk about how to set up the exchanges.

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Hiram Bennet
@hirambennet· Democratic · CO· Mar 16, 2011

I continue to hear from the small businesses in my State that they are just being crushed by rising health care costs.

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Hiram Bennet
@hirambennet· Democratic · CO· Mar 16, 2011

As the States begin to set up functioning exchanges, if more than one State wanted to get together and provide that exchange together, would they be able to do that?

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 16, 2011

Utah has been a leader in developing innovative State-based approaches to reforming the health care system.

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 16, 2011

The Utah exchange is a true free-enterprise marketplace, but unfortunately, the freedom it affords does not adhere to the President's health care agenda.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 16, 2011

It is just not fair. We had to compete with these folks in terms of electricity costs.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 16, 2011

I think Government has many roles to play. I think one of the most important roles we have to play is to try to provide what I call a nurturing environment for job creation, job preservation.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 16, 2011

I see demand is going up but the price is going down. I know that seems counterintuitive, but that is what is happening.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 16, 2011

In the end, the approach of using market forces, some of us were skeptical as to whether that would actually work, turned out it worked pretty well.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 16, 2011

The role of Government is not to be the lap dog for business, but to try to provide a nurturing environment for job creation.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 16, 2011

What I am interested in doing is making sure if we burn it, we have a lot of it, as we burn it to create electricity that we just burn it in a far more, a far cleaner way.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 16, 2011

These clean air regulations help us save billions of dollars on public health costs while providing a multitude of opportunities for good paying American jobs.

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