Despite the fact that:

• The average family's medical costs are projected to reach $18,000 next year and rise to $36,000 by 2020 if we don't reform our healthcare system now;
  
• The average family premium already costs $1,100 more because our system fails to cover everyone; and
  
• The U.S. economy is losing up to $248 billion every year because of productivity losses due to the uninsured...

Rather than pursuing meaningful reform in good faith, conservatives on the HELP Committee are delaying the legislative process by introducing over 350 obstructionist amendments - including provisions to maintain the broken system, "remove empowerment" of the Secretary of Health and Human Services and prevent much-needed competition for the insurance industry by eliminating the public plan. [Coburn 310, Hatch 216, Hatch 222, Burr 201, and Coburn 208]

This is on top of over 400 amendments they introduced in June, which included two separate amendments to create a program in which doctors would conduct undercover investigations on each other [Coburn 11, 87]. These are not serious efforts to get the reform that families need. Senator Dodd has already accepted nearly 90 Republican amendments, showing a commitment to a thoughtful, deliberative and bipartisan process - but most of the amendments being offered now are about keeping the status quo and political posturing.