| Securing American Jobs Through Exports Act Of 2012—Motion To Proceed |
May 10, 2012 |
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John Thune, R-SD
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"Second, I disagree with diverting the payroll tax revenue away from the Medicare and Social Security trust funds, where it would ordinarily be directed. We saw this done during the health care bill a couple years ago, where Medicare reductions and revenue increases that were supposed to go to extend the lifespan of Medicare were, in fact, used to pay for new spending. We cannot continue to try to fool the American people that we are somehow extending the lifespan of Medicare when we are spending that money on new programs."
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| Stop The Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act Of 2012—Motion To Proceed |
May 8, 2012 |
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Bob Corker, R-TN
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"So what is happening is these State governments, which are compelled by us, by the way, to fund these Medicaid Programs—let me make a point. Most people realize that with the passage of the health care bill a couple of years ago, we are going to have upwards of 25 million more Americans across this country on Medicaid. That was the largest part of the health care expansion that took place."
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| Stop The Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act Of 2012—Motion To Proceed |
May 7, 2012 |
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Bill Nelson, D-FL
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"The House of Representatives has taken a position and that has been discussed here. Their position is take it out of the health care bill. When we take it out of health care, we are taking it out of diabetes screening, heart disease screening, cancer screening for breast and cervical cancer. Do we want to do that? I don’t think so."
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| Health Care Reform |
March 29, 2012 |
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Thomas Carper, D-DE
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"The way we decided to do it in the health care bill, in the law rather than just mandate people get coverage, was to incentivize them. If they choose not to, that is their business. If they happen to be poor, we will help them pay down their cost for health care. But if they are not poor, and they have the financial means, we would like for them to get coverage. We are not going to mandate it, but the first year we have the means to be able to have coverage and they choose not to, there will be a fine or a penalty of some kind—maybe a couple hundred bucks, and that will increase not to $1,000 or $2,000, but it will go up several hundred dollars in order to encourage people to get the coverage."
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