Heidi Alexander

The proponents of this health reform package are misleading the American public into believing that you can raise the baseline and reduce spending at the same time. You cannot expect to expand coverage to millions of individuals and to…

I congratulate the Senator from Arizona for his consistency, for 5 years ago saying to members of his own party that the Senate is a place where minority rights are protected. As Senator Byrd has said, sometimes the minority is right. It…

Well, when they jump, they may be. But Senator Reid and his Democratic colleagues, I would say to my friend from Arizona, are not going to have any incentive to catch these House Members who vote for the bill because the President will…

I wonder if the Senator from Arizona would agree with me that what is happening is the President is inviting the House Democrats to join hands and jump off a cliff and hope Senator Reid catches them.

All in all, these factors suggest why, when Senator Collins took a look at Maine, she found that 87 percent of people in Maine are paying less for their individual policies than the policies would cost under the Reid bill. It is true that…

Finally, the young and the healthy can skip out of this. That will drive up premiums. They may decide they would rather pay a $750 fine than $2,500 for a health insurance policy they think they don't need. The American Academies of…

Younger Americans in the individual market will pay higher premiums under the Democratic plan because, as I mentioned earlier, it will mandate for individual coverage that I can't pay more than three times as much as my son can pay for an…

I thank the President. Here is a third reason, in addition to government mandates and taxes, that will cause premiums to rise. We call it cost-shift. Premiums will increase because the bill dumps 15 million to 18 million more Americans…