Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"We need to level the playing field with traditional Medicare."

"As Senator Whitehouse so eloquently said, we need to move away from the rigidified--the disjointed--Medicare fee-for-service system to a much more collaborative and communicative thing with doctors an..."

"That would be consistent with a recurring problem that we are seeing in the American corporate world, which is an effort to privatize profits and socialize costs."

"It is a consumer protection problem that has a particular burden for those who are the most ill and the most vulnerable."