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RCP: The health care reform debate is nothing if not multi-syllabic and difficult to comprehend. How much of the challenge of this discussion is conducting it without going over people’s heads?

Senator Wyden: Well, I think it’s understood that most of the health care lingo doesn’t resemble English.

I just say that it’s been shown that for the amount of money that we’re spending today in America, all Americans can have good quality affordable coverage. It seems to me that if you start to spend the health care dollar in the right places, and make the kind of tough choices that we’re talking about here -- insurance reform, making sure you have the right cost containment tools, progressive taxation rather than tax rules that disproportionably reward the most well-off -- you can get this done.

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