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Health care should be affordable for everyone.

We shouldn't be undermining Medicare for those who need it most in order to give more tax cuts to those who need them least.

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

There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.

While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that these efficiencies should come at the cost of patient well being.

We ought to follow through on an idea that was first proposed by President Clinton to allow people over the age of 55 who are not eligible for Medicare into the Medicare system, at cost, and below cost for those who can't afford it. That takes care of a significant number of the people who don't have health insurance.

I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older.

And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.