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I think the idea of participating in your own health care and being responsible to the extent you can be of your own health, it seems to me a lot like self-reliance and individual responsibility. This cuts through the partisan divide.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.

People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.

What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.