A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.
When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.
Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.
I'm a big believer in what's called personalized medicine, which refers to customizing your health care to your specific needs based on your physiology, genetics, value system and unique conditions.
As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.
A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.
We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care c...
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.
Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
