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
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
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
Its correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition. – Ron Wyden
I can support co-ops if they want to do it as weve known co-ops in America for 150 years – where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether its health care or whether its co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer. – Chuck Grassley