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.
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.
President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.
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.
Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.
If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's as simple as that.
We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.
As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.
Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.
Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.
Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.
With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.
Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto their employees.
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that.
