#health

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#allowing #also #borders #cannot #control

Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#coin #economy #fixing #health #health care

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

#amount #care #country #cover #doctor

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

#aspect #believe #care #get #guarantee

If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#choose #else #health #health insurance #insurance

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#competition #correct #create #health #health reform

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

#all americans #assure #ax #beyond #bipartisan

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#because #care #government #government programs #health

Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that can change the incentives to reward quality. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#change #clearly #doctors #efficiency #healthy

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

#care #care costs #choice #costs #discourages