I’ve written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don’t have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care. – Ron Wyden
While Free Choice Vouchers didn’t fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family’s health insurance costs. – Ron Wyden
I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices. – Ron Wyden
This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly. – Ron Wyden
The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation. – Ron Wyden
I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older. – Ron Wyden
Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes – all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone’s car or ask a cell phone company for that individual’s location history and the technology does the work for them. – Ron Wyden
For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service. – Ron Wyden
It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared. – Ron Wyden
Let’s hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line. – Ron Wyden
It’s correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition. – Ron Wyden
Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply – the lower the price. The higher the demand – the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil. – Ron Wyden
Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product. – Ron Wyden
Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto their employees. – Ron Wyden
As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world. – Ron Wyden
President Obama was right to make enforcement of those trade rules a priority and his creation, today, of a Trade Enforcement Unit is a massive step in the right direction. – Ron Wyden
It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies. – Ron Wyden
With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers’ unaffordable insurance or going without health care. – Ron Wyden
President Obama said it best during his state of the Union Address this year when he declared: ‘I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don’t play by the rules.’ – Ron Wyden
For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them. – Ron Wyden
Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don’t. – Ron Wyden
The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it’s grotesque. – Ron Wyden
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates. – Ron Wyden
Oregonians aren’t the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state’s National Guard. – Ron Wyden
The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system. – Ron Wyden
I don’t care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn’t have to hide who you are. – Ron Wyden
It’s time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It’s time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow – building a health care system that works for all Americans. – Ron Wyden
It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan’s plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law. – Ron Wyden
