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Article: CHAIRMAN BAUCUS ISSUES STATEMENT ON HEALTH CARE REFORM
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 14, 2007
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The Senate Finance Committee issued the following hearing schedule or text of a hearing:
Charting a Course for Health Care Reform:Moving Toward Universal CoverageHearing before the Senate Committee on FinanceOpening Statement of Senator Max Baucus
In the Wisdom of Ben Sira, in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles, it is written: "There are no riches above the riches of health."
And the Swiss poet Henri Amiel wrote: "Health is the first of all liberties."
America is the richest nation in the world. But to our shame, we remain the only industrialized nation that does not think itself rich enough to guarantee its citizens health coverage.
And America is the freest of all nations. But we ...