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An Interview With Ron Wyden
tnr.com - 10/13/2009
An Interview With Ron Wyden
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Barring a last-minute change in plans, the Senate Finance Committee will vote on a health care reform bill Tuesday. Discussion--i.e., speeches--are supposed to start at 10 a.m. The vote itself is slated for 2 pm. The bill is expected to pass. The real question, most people will tell you, is ...
Senate Finance Committee Votes On Health Care Reform Bill
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/13/2009
Senate Finance Committee Votes On Health Care Reform Bill
— tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — 10:00 a.m.: We're moments away from the start of the last Senate Finance Committee hearing on health... care reform. Check in here for continuous updates until the vote, which may not come until the afternoon. 10:37 a.m. : Quoth Hatch, "It is ... (more) Senate Finance Committee Votes On Health Care Reform Bill

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How the Senate Finance Committee Got Ron Wyden's Vote
voices.washingtonpost.com - 10/13/2009
How the Senate Finance Committee Got Ron Wyden's Vote
— voices.washingtonpost.com — If you'd asked me six months ago which Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee would prove the... toughest vote on health-care reform, I'd have had a couple answers for you. Blanche Lincoln, maybe. Or Tom Carper. Or Kent Conrad. I would not ... (more) How the Senate Finance Committee Got Ron Wyden's Vote

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The Baucus Conundrum
nytimes.com - 10/9/2009
The Baucus Conundrum
— nytimes.com — The longer the health care debate goes on, the more I become convinced that the American system... needs fundamental reform. We need to transition away from a fee-for-service system to one that directs incentives toward better care, not more procedures. ... (more) The Baucus Conundrum

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Ezra Klein:  How the Senate Finance Committee Got Ron Wyden's Vote

The Note:  'Top Line' -- Sen. Wyden: Lack of Choice in Health Care Bill Doesn’t Pass ‘Smell Test’

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How the Senate Finance Committee Got Ron Wyden's Vote
Ezra Klein — ... forward to working with you on this proposal. The agreement that's pointing towards is this: Baucus and Wyden are, in theory, working together to get a compromise version of Wyden's amendment into the merged bill that will come out of the HELP/Finance negotiations. The details of that amendment aren't nailed down yet, but Baucus's cooperation, at least for the purposes of the Congressional Record, is. For more from Wyden, check out Jon Cohn's interview. Photo credit: By Alex Brandon — Associated Press ...

'Top Line' -- Sen. Wyden: Lack of Choice in Health Care Bill Doesn’t Pass ‘Smell Test’
The Note — ... today, Wyden renewed his call to inject more choice into the health care system by allowing individuals -- not just small businesses -- to buy into the new “insurance exchanges” that would be created by the bill. ...

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