Ron Wyden

This bill is an attack on vital consumer protections.

Not a single State overall will do better?

I would like to hear your thoughts on it.

I think I have the scars to prove it from previous actions where I was willing to take on entitlement reform. But this current process is a travesty.

The Nation's senior citizens who have counted on a guarantee, under this program they effectively are seeing that guarantee hollowed out.

I want to make sure that nobody fouls it up.

My message to the American people is that it is going to be critical to keep fighting this deeply flawed bill, especially until Saturday, which is when the next procedural window closes.

This proposal, the Graham-Cassidy proposal, I call it Trumpcare, the next version of Trumpcare, ends that guarantee and effectively turns it into a guarantee in name only.

I will hold the record open for your views on that because that, to me, seems like a threshold question.

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 history.

Maybe they are all wrong. Maybe they are all wrong.

This is a Republican invention. And frankly, as one Democrat, I thought it was a pretty good invention.

In 10 years, to continue that block grant would cost $190 billion for that next year at level funding.

I reminded him that his mom probably did.

I want the American people to understand the consequence of that statement.

Congratulations are in order, because they all think what you are talking about is a disaster.

We do not have any objective information about what it is going to mean to people's premiums.

Do you continue to believe as of today they are wrong?

There is no way--there is no way--that we will not see people's health care, nursing home care, children's health care, cut as a result of this bill.

The cuts to Michigan when this is fully implemented, according to Avalere, are $140 billion--$140 billion.

Is this what we will actually be voting on?

Mr. Chairman, one of our past great chairmen, Pat Moynihan, said everybody is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

We feel very strongly on our side we ought to be working on a bipartisan basis today.

Graham-Cassidy, however, would inevitably take us backwards and in a reckless and dangerous manner.

As the group of 10 Governors, both Republicans and Democrats, wrote earlier this month, Graham-Cassidy is not the answer.