Am pleased to offer unlimited 233 i have been asked to make it clear right from the nature of this amendment, it is to try and follow the advice of about every witness that testified in this room about how to stabilize the change. The three things we should do is make clear that these costsharing reductions would offset copays and deductibles. That was one thing. Number two they said to put in place a Reinsurance Program. A look at patient care. Number three they said we should retain the individual mandate, if we decide not to have something that is just as effective in getting young and Healthy People part of the insurance pool across the country. The legislation before this repeals or proposes to reveal the individual mandate. If that actually happens we will have a costsharing reduction. With having a tree like a stool, that is what it has been called by Health Insurance folks and providers. They all called for that three stool approach to reduce the cost of the exchange. Chairman,
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33, corporate amendment 17. I will make a clear from the start nature of this amendment is to try to follow the advice about every witness who testified in this room back in september about how to stabilize that exchanges. Everyones said we should make clear that the cost sharing reduction which would set the cost of copays and adaptable, make it clear they are going away for at least two years. Number two they said put in place a Reinsurance Program for highly expensive patient care particular patients. Number three, they said we should retain in the individual mandate if we decide not to replace it with something thats as effective in getting a good mix of young and Healthy People to be part of the insurance pool within the exchanges. The legislation before as a purely repeals or proposes to repeal the individual mandate. That would leave us with costsharing reduction and no reinsurance. Instead of a three legged stool which is what was called for by governors, insurance commissioner
Lifting of the quorum call . The presiding officer the senator may proceed. Mr. Nelson thank you, madam president. Madam president , the matter that is before the senate is the amendment that i have offered, and it simply is that in this tax bill, since the corporate rate is reduced from 35 down to 20 and that is permanent but the modest middleclass tax breaks are not permanent, in seven or eight years, they cease to exist, they sunset. So you want in this tax bill to give permanent, huge corporate cuts from 35 down to 20 , which by the way if the American Corporation is doing business overseas, its basically a zero tax rate, which is an incentive to go overseas, send jobs overseas, american jobs lost. While giving those huge corporate breaks, at the same time it is giving modest breaks to the very people who need the tax cuts. That is, hardworking American Families, the middleclass. And then, oh, by the way, in seven or eight years, vamoose, its gone. It goes back up. Its a tax increa
Quorum call mr. Wyden mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oregon. Mr. Wyden i ask unanimous consent to vacate the quorum call, mr. President. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Wyden mr. President , i met this fall with dreamers in my home state of oregon, in meetings in eugene and portland. These young people described powerful accounts of how the Trump Administration has needlessly and cruelly injected fear into their lives and the lives of their families. Right now these dreamers, these young people whove done nothing wrong, with terrific grades and wonderful conduct, and helping their families, theyre faced with a very real threat that they may be ripped away from the only lives and the only country theyve ever known. These young people might be little more than numbers on a page to those who spend their days waging political fights in the nations capital, but this is not some kind of academic topic for the thousands of young people across the land who