Latest Answers http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/latest/272/%2A/%2A/%2A a view of answers sorted by date en <p>What Americans want is to make sure they have choices like their Members of Congress have. Members of Congress have private health care choices. And with the Healthy Americans Act we have now been able to get a significant group of senators, both Republicans and Democrats, to show that for the amount of money that&rsquo;s being spent on health care today, according to the budget experts, it&rsquo;s possible for all Americans to have similar choices.</p><p><i><b>Reporter Todd Zwillich:</b> I don&rsquo;t know if it was caucus wide, but the platform of some Democrats was to get people bought into that program before this upcoming election. Why hasn&rsquo;t Congress managed to loosen some of the reigns on FEHBP so far?</i></p><p><b>Wyden:</b> There are a number of questions about what some of the costs would be, and that is why I thought it was important to address the changes that drive the behavior in American health care. And then you do that, we now have proof from the Congressional Budget Office, the independent experts, that for the amount of money you spend today, all Americans can have choices like their Members of Congress have, and I think that is what the driving part of this whole discussion is all about when it comes to Members of Congress and federal workers.</p><p><b>*NOTE:** Sen. Ron Wyden is a member of Finance Committee and sponsor of the Healthy Americans Act, which proposes to enroll individuals in FEHBP </b></p> http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%2526lt%3Bp%2526gt%3Bwhat-americans-want-make-sure-they-have-choices-their-members-congress-have.-member Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:48:28 -0500 Todd Zwillich 1422 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org Of course. There ought to be truth in budgeting. I don’t think that this is a real complicated concept. It seems to me that war expenditures just as expenditures for human services and other essential functions of government have got to be transparent. <br><br> <b>Elizabeth Wynne Johnson:</b> Anything that you plan to do to see that happen? <br><br> Certainly in the Budget Committee, you know with the Budget Resolution, Chairman Conrad is going to make a big push to try to force additional disclosure of those costs. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/course.-there-ought-be-truth-budgeting.-i-don%E2%80%99t-think-real-complicated-concept.-it-seems-me- Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:35:29 -0600 1138 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org