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Alexander: Democrats' Health Care Bill Puts U.S. on Path to Bankruptcy
“The cost of these health care proposals is going to head us toward a state of fiscal ruin.” |
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November 9th, 2009 - WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today on the Senate floor discussed health care reform and urged Congress to take President Obama’s advice that any effort to reform health care must first start with reducing health care costs for Americans and their government.
• "The Democrats’ bill is indeed historic in its combination of higher premiums, higher taxes, Medicare cuts and more federal government debt.”
• “As a former governor of Tennessee, I simply do not see how Tennessee can pay for its part of the Medicaid expansion without imposing a new state income tax and damaging higher education.”
• “Health care reform is about reducing costs, not increasing, costs. Why don’t we start step-by-step to reduce costs?”
• “At the President’s White House health reform summit, the President himself introduced the b word – bankruptcy. The President said, ‘If we don't address costs, I don't care how heartfelt our efforts are, we will not get this done. If people think that we can simply take everybody who's not insured and load them up in a system where costs are out of control, it's not going to happen. We will run out of money. The federal government will be bankrupt; state governments will be bankrupt.’ That’s the b-word. I think we should listen to those words.”
• “The cost of these health care proposals is going to head us toward state of fiscal ruin. Let’s read this bill; let’s know what it costs, and let’s see how it affects you.”
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November 23, 2009 -
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Alexander Warns That “Our Clean-Energy Future Must Be a Cheap-Energy Future”
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November 22, 2009 -
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Alexander Discusses Health Care Reform, Afghanistan on Fox News Sunday
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November 21, 2009 -
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Alexander Says Health Care Bill Is “Historic in Its Arrogance”
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November 19, 2009 -
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Alexander Opposes Nomination of Judge Hamilton
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November 19, 2009 -
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Alexander Says New Health Bill Is “Same Turkey Americans Didn’t Like in August”
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November 18, 2009 -
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Enzi, Nelson, Alexander Move to Protect Student Loans
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November 18, 2009 -
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Alexander: Republican Proposals Lower Premiums and Reduce Costs, While Democrats Increase Premiums, Raise Taxes and Cut Medicare
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November 18, 2009 -
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Alexander: Food Safety Bill Passes Senate Hurdle
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November 17, 2009 -
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Alexander: Medicaid Expansion Creates Unfunded Mandate That Will Bankrupt States
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November 17, 2009 -
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Alexander, Corker Announce $101.4 Million for Tennessee Military Projects and Veterans Bill
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November 17, 2009 -
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Alexander Statement on Nomination of Judge Hamilton
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November 17, 2009 -
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Alexander, Webb Introduce Bipartisan Clean Energy Legislation with Emphasis on Nuclear Energy Investment
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November 16, 2009 -
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Alexander Statement on Tennessean Space Shuttle Pilot
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November 10, 2009 -
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Alexander Honors Veterans, Slain Mountain City Soldier on Senate Floor
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November 9, 2009 -
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current Press Release
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November 7, 2009 -
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Alexander: Health Care Reform Should Lower Costs, Not Add to Debt
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November 6, 2009 -
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Alexander Statement on Highest National Unemployment Rate in 26 Years
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November 6, 2009 -
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Alexander Announces Funding For Tennessee Justice and Science Programs
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November 5, 2009 -
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Alexander Says Democrats’ Health Care Plan Scares Seniors, Cuts Medicare
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November 5, 2009 -
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Alexander Opposes Democrats’ Cap-and-Trade Bill, Says Americans Want to Know Cost of New National Energy Tax
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November 4, 2009 -
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Alexander Votes to Give Tennesseans 20 Additional Weeks of Unemployment Benefits
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November 4, 2009 -
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Alexander Warns of Half Trillion Dollar Cut to Medicare in Democratic Health Care Plan
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November 4, 2009 -
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Alexander Assails Democrats’ $2 Trillion, 2,000-Page “Full of Surprises” Bill, Offers Republican Alternatives
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