Quote

With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.

Ron Wyden

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ron Wyden
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 3
Basketball Player
Politician
United States Senator
Wichita
Kansas
Ronald Wyden
Ron Lee Wyden
Real
Shot
Proposals
Shots
Examining
Health
Proposal
President
Host
Give
Table
Best
Reform
Ideas
Obligation
Giving
Tables

More quotes by Ron Wyden

Image
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
Image
Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.
Ron Wyden
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.
Ron Wyden
Image
Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.
Ron Wyden
Image
When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
Ron Wyden
Image
Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.
Ron Wyden
Image
You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.
Ron Wyden
Image
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
Image
When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.
Ron Wyden
Image
The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.
Ron Wyden
Image
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
Image
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
Image
When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the systems most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.
Ron Wyden
Image
It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.
Ron Wyden
Image
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
Image
Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.
Ron Wyden
Image
If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.
Ron Wyden