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We will have health care reform in America.

Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.

We think healthcare costs should be going down, not up. We think people should be able to keep insurance that they had.

It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.

And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit.

I think we have to be very careful when we toss around terms like 'cut health care costs.' We would do very well to expect a cut in the rate of increase.