When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.
I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.
A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.
I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.
When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.
In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care.
Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.
Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.
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.
Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.
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.
Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.
That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet.
For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.
It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.
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.
Well, my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that don't have anything to do with health care.
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.
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.
