Quotes by Ron Wyden - Page 2

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 / United States Senator
Doctors
Efficiency
Hospitals
Incentives
Reimbursement
Volume
Clearly
Patients
Reward
Tool
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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 / United States Senator
Competitors
President Obama
Best World New
Best World Will
Anywhere
Union
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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 / United States Senator
Access
Greater
Online
Piracy
Protect
Voice
Act
Different Kind
Towards
Ip
Step
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Gasoline prices are soaring through the stratosphere, and the Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to be standing up for the consumer, ought to stop playing footsie with the oil companies and take steps to protect the American people.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Gasoline Prices
Oil
People
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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 / United States Senator
Business
Demand
Higher
Industry
Oil
Oil Industry
Words
Business People More
Basic
Buy
In Other Words
Lower
More People
Premise
Price
Runs
Supply
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If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Environmental
China
Goods
Helping
International
International Trade
Organization
Solar Panels
Trade
World
World Trade
World Trade Organization
Rules
Agreed
Artificially
Charge
Domestic
Industries
Low
Member
Price
Solar
Trade Organization
Violating
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I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Agree
Bills
Congress
Debate
Health Reform
Promise
Reform
Truth Is
None
They Say
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Right at the heart of the Affordable Care Act is the ban on insurance companies discriminating against people with a pre-existing condition. And this part of the Affordable Care Act makes sure that health care is not just for the healthy and wealthy.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Healthy
Heart
People
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I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say "If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it." But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Bills
Promise
Reform
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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 / United States Senator
Access
Bipartisan
Care
Health Care
Health Care System
Looks
Solutions
Tomorrow
Working Together
Time Work Health
All Americans
Assure
Ax
Budget
Work Health Time
Tackle
Work Together
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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 / United States Senator
Benefits
Free Choice
Groups
Health Benefits
Health Care System
Special Interest Groups
Vouchers
Begins
Current
Employees
Measure
Object
Special Interest
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Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Cost
Customers
Geography
Numbers
Oil
Pipeline
Producers
Simple
Canadian
Due
Effective
Sell
Limited
Mostly
North
North American
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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 / United States Senator
Health
Care
Congressman
Health Care
Health Care System
Irony
Reform
Health Law Care
Miss
Budget
Crafting
Deal
Fact
Republicans
Forces
Market
Market Forces
Paul
Plan
Publicly
Ryan
Strip
System
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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 / United States Senator
Capability
Constraints
Enforcement
Law Enforcement
Reasonable
Tracking
Unclear
Agencies
Currently
Disappeared
Discourage
Good Reason
Largely
Limitations
Resource
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I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Able
Grassroots
Insurance Companies
Ought
Senate
Should Have
States
Strong
Thinking
United States
Accountable
American
All Americans
Bill
Case
Choice
Companies
Stay
Hold
Insurance
Progressives
United States Senate
Votes
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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 / United States Senator
Access
Allowing
Borders
Country
Developing
Developing Countries
Drug
Generic
Nations
Thinking
Countries
Cross
Deadly
Diseases
Improve
Infectious
Shortsighted
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I asked the former director James Comey about the FBI's intersections with Jeff Sessions prior to his stepping aside from the Russia investigation. Mr. Comey said his continued engagement with the Russian investigation was "problematic " and he said he could not discuss it in public.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
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Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Health
Allowing
President
States
United States
Watches
Tv
Free
Drive
Becomes
Works
Choose
Watch
Health Insurance
Insurance
Suddenly
Un-American
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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 / United States Senator
Bills
Concerned
Groups
Legislation
Lobbyists
Senate
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Sneak
Special
Special Interest Groups
Allow
Creates
Included
Large
Provisions
Slope
Special Interest
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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 / United States Senator
Technology
Cell Phone
Cells
Location
Phones
Police
Projects
Resources
Tracking
Cell
Departments
Device
Divert
Phone
Overtime
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Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal authority to execute that surveillance, and finally, removing any accountable judicial oversight, creates the opportunity for unprecedented influence over our system of government.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Opportunity
Government
Surveillance
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In order to do vigorous oversight, the leadership of the intelligence community has got to be straight with the American people and straight with the Congress. For there to be vigorous oversight, the intelligence community's got to be straight with the American people and the Congress and that has not been the case.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Community
Order
People
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Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Health
Aisle
America
Both Sides
Broken
Care
Financial
Hardship
Health Care
Health Care Costs
Lawmakers
Millions
Paid
Sides
Silence
Since
American Public
Considered
Care Costs
Public
Offer
Plan
Politically
Price
Risky
System
Though
Uninsured
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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 / United States Senator
Competition
Employers
Fire
Free Choice
Health Care
Health Care System
Safety
Valve
Vision
Vouchers
Bear
Choice
Costs
Every American
Forcing
Fulfill
Hire
Insurance
More And More
Whose
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Americans don't want to hear the answers are privileged and off limits or they can't be provided in public or it would be inappropriate for witnesses to tell us what they know. We are talking about an attack on our democratic institutions and stonewalling of any kind is unacceptable. General Jeff Sessions acknowledged that there is no legal basis for this stonewalling.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Democratic
Inappropriate
Kind
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The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Technology
Regret
Unique
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The government's collection authority, under the Patriot Act, is basically limitless. They can get the medical records and financial records, gun purchase records. And it also becomes part of another important issue that relates to the FISA court and the rest of the debate. It almost becomes a secret law, like there are two Patriot Acts. The one you read on the laptop essentially leads you to believe that there's some connection to terror .
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Government
Believe
Gun
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Part of what we're trying to do is lay out what really happened. For example, I've been trying to get across that the intelligence leadership did not just keep the country in the dark. They actively misled the country on key issues. When you have someone who heads the NSA saying we don't hold data at all on US citizens, that's one of the most misleading statements I believe that's ever been made about surveillance policy. And I think that now we're starting to get that message across.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Believe
Country
Dark
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You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect content." As [Vice President] Joe Biden said when he was a United States senator, you don't need to listen to those calls. If you have who somebody called, when and where, and you learned, for example, somebody called a psychiatrist three times in the last few days and twice after midnight, you know a lot about that person that they may not want people to know about them, especially the government.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Government
Listening
People
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