We welcome bipartisan cooperation on these proposals, as with the pharmacy benefit manager reforms I recently introduced with Senator Wyden and many of our finance colleagues. But We must not simply kick the can down the road yet again every time we spend tens of billions of dollars for unsupervised and poorly designed subsidies, as our colleagues are asking us to do. Once again, we worsen the health care crisis that we all want to solve and we do nothing to stop the explosive increase in premiums. (08:27–08:41)
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