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Wyden Wins Free Choice Concession

Vote likely on amendment to offer vouchers for tax-free portion of employer sponored health plans

November 20, 2009 -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) have taken a long stride toward locking down the support of Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). Read More >>

Wyden's Call for Free Choice Still Largely Ignored

Sen. Ron Wyden makes a renewed pitch for a free choice amendment after it's still been shut out

November 19, 2009 -- 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. Read More >>

Senate Compromise Bill Excludes Free Choice

Despite offering up the public option, Sen. Ron Wyden says most Americans won’t have the option to buy it

October 27, 2009 -- Sen. Harry Reid made thousands of headlines yesterday for including a public option in the Senate health reform bill, but virtually nobody is reporting that roughly 90 percent of Americans won’t have the option of buying into the so-called public option. Read More >>

Wyden Upbeat on Free Choice, Public Option

In a national radio interview, Sen. Ron Wyden said even conservative colleagues know value in free choice

October 20, 2009 -- Sen. Ron Wyden picked up the pressure for his Free Choice Amendment and a strong public option in an appearance today on the Ed Schultz national radio program. Read More >>

How Senate Finance Committee Got Ron Wyden's Vote

Baucus nods to Free Choice Amendment when bills merge

October 13, 2009 -- Sen. Ron Wyden's support eluded the Senate Finance Committee and the White House after they nixed his Free Choice Amendment. Before voting for the bill today, Wyden earned a promise to revisit the measure. Read More >>

Wyden Tells OMA Fight for Free Choice Continues

Sen. Ron Wyden has become an outspoken critic of legislation so far since his amendment failed last week

October 5, 2009 -- Despite his failure to convince his colleagues to pass a free choice amendment to the $880 billion healthcare bill winding its way through Congress, Senator Ron Wyden refuses to give up the fight. Read More >>

Wyden Withdraws Choice Amendment, Derides Bill

In another concession to industry, Democrats deny Wyden's free choice amendment

Originally at Oregonlive.com
October 2, 2009 -- Defying his own party, Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon late Thursday sharply criticized the most ambitious health care legislation in a generation, concluding that the bill written by Democrats does not offer millions of workers sufficient choice of insurance plans and lacks muscular tools for controlling medical costs. Read More >>

Wyden Aide Explains Vote on Public Option

If Sen. Wyden supported the public option why did it take so long to be clear?

WASHINGTON, DC October 1, 2009 -- Senator Ron Wyden pleased many advocates of healthcare reform when he voted on Tuesday for two amendments that would have put a public option in the reform bill before the Senate Finance Committee. Both those amendments failed because Democrats on the committee opposed them. Read More >>

Wyden Votes Yes on Public Option, Panel Rejects

A vote on Sen. Ron Wyden's Free Choice Amendment expected soon

Originally at StatesmanJournal.com
September 30, 2009 -- Sen. Ron Wyden on Tuesday voted in support of a public health insurance option to compete with the private market as the key committee he sits on shot down the measure twice. Read More >>

Senate Finance Vote on Public Option Delayed

Sen. Schumer introduces amendment for up or down vote, advocates make one last blitz at Wyden

September 25, 2009 -- The Senate Finance Committee says the panel will not get to the matter of a public option debate today. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) went out on a limb Thursday evening, telling reporters that a “strong, robust” public plan will be included in whatever final bill is signed by the president. Read More >>

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