Nov 30, 2011
I would just tell you my practice wasn't limited to delivery of babies. I did a wide family practice.
Tom Coburn
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Tom Coburn is a former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, serving from 2005 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Coburn was known for his fiscal conservatism and advocacy for government transparency. He was a practicing physician before entering politics, which influenced his views on healthcare and government spending. Throughout his tenure, he was a vocal critic of wasteful government expenditures and often called for reforms to improve accountability in Congress.
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Nov 30, 2011
I think what you are going to find is people like Dr. Jack McClellan were not the ones writing the vast majority of these prescriptions.
Nov 30, 2011
That can be a ruling coming out of HHS--this will not happen, and we will not pay for it.
Nov 30, 2011
Access to a government health care program is not access to real care, and we are seeing that in this hearing today.
Nov 28, 2011
Yes. Mr. McCAIN. Isn't it kind of a symptom of the disease we suffer from here where we would not even agree to legislation that cuts mail delivery from 6 days to 5 days, which is the recommendation of the Postmaster General?
Nov 15, 2011
It is my understanding we have until 11 a.m. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator is correct. ____________________
Nov 10, 2011
If the Senator will yield for a moment, one of the reasons our cancer cure rates are a third better than England is because we don't have an IPAB and they do. The No. 1 reason survival rates from cancer in England are lower is because…
Nov 2, 2011
If this is not a global regulatory scheme on commodity pricing, what you have done will have no significant effect.
Nov 2, 2011
The whole goal for position limits is to make sure not anybody is manipulating the market, correct?
Nov 2, 2011
So the point I am making is we had position limits on those commodities, yet we saw tremendous swings, tremendous increased speculation, and tremendous increased volatility.
Nov 2, 2011
The point is the factual basis of determining excessive speculation needs to be based on something that is concrete, not an aftereffect but something that is concrete.
Nov 2, 2011
So for clarity for the American people, either there is or there is not excessive speculation, and we have put forward regulations to prevent the potential for that in the future.
Nov 2, 2011
If they are price insensitive, if they do not care what the price is because they are sure they are going to make money on the next month as they roll it over, why isn't everybody doing that?
Nov 2, 2011
Excessive speculation leads to markedly increased volatility, what you should expect some market force on real supply and demand to have some influence on.
Nov 2, 2011
So you agree we have to have some speculators in the market to make a market.
Nov 2, 2011
Can we change the rules here, in our country can we change the rules on our exchanges and solve this problem?
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