Ron Wyden

The centerpiece of end-of-life care should be about empowering patients and their families, and it is high time.

Solving this issue is going to take bipartisan work, but I strongly believe that Democrats and Republicans can work together on health care.

When you ration hepatitis C drugs, people get sicker and sicker and have these very serious liver illnesses, which cost even more money.

Senator Casey made a very good point with respect to the new spike in foster care, and certainly a factor in that is the opioid epidemic.

That is not Medicare today. Medicare today is cancer, diabetes, heart disease, strokes.

America is not going to turn back the clock on the Affordable Care Act.

People can no longer be discriminated against and denied health coverage because of a preexisting condition.

I think you are kind of writing a sort of manual for how you ought to do this job at this incredibly important agency.

I can tell you that, of course, the popular wisdom is that this is an election year and nothing is going to get done and the like, but I have been very appreciative of Chairman Hatch's interest in this, and he is telling us we are supposed…

Medicare of 2016 is not the Medicare of 1965.

Medicare Care Choices starts us down the path, but Senator Warner is absolutely right about several of the next steps, and I am with you.

I sent a letter to the CDC Director to offer my support for the CDC's draft Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain.

Oregon has been among the States with the highest non-medical use of prescription pain relievers.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Expanding Medicaid has put a big dent in the cost of uncompensated care.

I have opened an investigation into potential conflicts of interest between opioid manufacturers and the pain industry.

Budget cuts that hobble our ability to fight back against these tax ripoffs are tantamount to kickbacks to the criminals.

No one should think that the fraudsters and organized criminals who have made headlines preying on taxpayers have somehow vanished and moved on.

In my view, budget cuts that hobble our ability to fight back against these schemes are tantamount to kickbacks to the criminals.

According to the most recent numbers, it is probably higher in terms of the corporate tax gap.

I think that is a big part of launching the year, to really start the debate with these hearings.

So we think that it would be helpful--we are not requesting a big regulatory program.

As you and I have talked about, I think we will be better positioned to get the resources when Democrats and Republicans on this committee understand exactly what the action plan is to turn this around.

My hope is, this afternoon we will hear how the agency and the Commissioner can, in concert with us, on a bipartisan basis, put in place a strategy that ups the ante in terms of dealing with the most serious aspects of corporation tax…

There are, in America right now, two different tax systems.