The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.
I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
And what we're doing in Ohio is we're moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversified, including energy and health care and agriculture and IT.
I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't.
Saying 'no' to very bad legislation is not wrong. In fact, when the American people tell you that they don't want the health care bill, you've got a responsibility to say no.
Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.
Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.
We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.
I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.
In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care.
In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.
The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.
We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.
It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.
Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.
For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more than in health, susceptible to the influence of particular states of the mind.
Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.
Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?
The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.
