Ron Wyden actually said...

"It is the flexibility to do better, not to do worse."

"We have saved $435 million in taxpayer money because people can go to the doctor instead of using the most expensive way to get health care, which is the emergency room."

"Taken together, the per-capita caps and the envisioned block grant would constitute the largest intergovernmental transfer of financial risk from the Federal Government to the States in our country's ..."

"It would create chaos and uncertainty, new levels of marketplace instability, higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs for many."