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Wyden promotes free-market insurance
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| Last Edited | Jason Sep 14, 2009 07:31am |
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| Author | Lori Newman |
| News Date | Wednesday, September 9, 2009 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Every American citizen should have access to the same array of medical insurance options that members of Congress have.
That was U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden’s message when he came to Reedsport for a town hall meeting Saturday morning at Pacific Auditorium. He spent most of the 90-minute session answering questions about health care and insurance issues and explaining his proposed Healthy Americans Act, which would, he said, provide insurance choices and save money at the same time.
Wyden called the current system of employer-based health care coverage “indefensible,” “inhumane” and “an insurance lobbyist’s dream.”
“We can hold down the costs ... and give people choices,” Wyden said. He explained that members of Congress currently have 13 or 14 health coverage plans from which to choose every year, and that if they don’t like the way they are treated under one plan, they can always choose to purchase another plan next year. |
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