Jeff Merkley actually said...

"Sustainable means cutting healthcare for poor people and damaging rural America, and that's just unacceptable."

"If you're really for competition, why not support a public option?"

"Senator Chris Murphy and I and several of my colleagues have introduced a bill that says let people choose a Medicare policy if they want, a public option."

"All I'm hearing from my medical community is we need to train more doctors and more nurses and more PAs, so why does it make sense to cut these programs?"