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Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.

To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past.

Private insurance companies in America are reaping huge profits.

We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.

We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.

Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do.

What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.

I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill.

We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.