Ron Wyden

I cannot imagine doing that or privatizing the systems, turning them over to Wall Street or private insurance companies.

We locked in the first-ever set of financial penalties for pricing gouging in Medicare.

We pointed to the risk of higher launch prices and distorted pricing practices based on projections validated by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

I have serious concerns with the focus on partisan policies that risk harming health-care access and affordability for both current and future patients.

Americans deserve better and more affordable access to prescription drugs, and we can find bipartisan results-oriented solutions to advance that goal.

Fifteen years after the law was written, the insurance companies, the big insurance companies, are still finding ways to drag their feet on carrying out the parity law with respect to mental health.

Senator Crapo and I talk often about this, and we intend to continue our mental health work in this Congress, again in a bipartisan way.

I have said from the beginning that when the Federal Government leads on flagship health reforms in Medicare and in its key programs, we know as sure as the night follows the day that the private sector is going to follow.

I strongly support this approach, especially as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services continue to steadily implement the laws that are already on the books.

If Republicans go after Medicaid the way they did in 2017 by cutting Federal support to State Medicaid programs... that guaranteed backstop of nursing home care for seniors is ripped away.

Nobody wants America to return to that time.

As long as I am chair of this committee, I will fight any effort to engage in intergenerational warfare.

The President's budget comes down to a simple proposition: helping working families and the middle class get ahead and reducing the Federal deficit are not mutually exclusive.

It's bad for the economy and the environment.

The administration needs to ramp up enforcement of the trade laws that are already on the books--across the board.

Now the United States needs to kick into a higher gear with smarter, more innovative approaches to trade.

Congress and the public need a chance to vet trade agreements before they are signed.

We need to make sure that there are detailed negotiating objectives before negotiations start.

I want to make it clear--and I think colleagues agree with this--the United States of America has got to play offense on international trade.

Let us start with the USMCA. Senator Brown and I fought for stronger, faster-acting enforcement tools like the rapid response mechanism.

China continues to put up barriers to American products and American values, while ripping off jobs, using forced labor, and undermining free speech.

The administration also needs to set up enforcement beyond USMCA to defend American workers and businesses from unfair trade practices wherever they are happening.

The United States needs to kick into a higher gear with a smarter, more innovative approach to trade which will deliver real results for American workers, farmers, and businesses.

The Biden administration, from the get-go, had a difficult job to do with respect to trade.

None of us wants America to return to that time.