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My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and paid into Medicare, knowing that one day she could count on having high-quality health care when she needed it most.

— Ann McLane Kuster

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Dennis Hastert

My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.

— Willem Dafoe

I spent 28 years working in healthcare. I thought I'd retired from non-profit community health care.

— Glenn Thompson

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

— Christopher Meloni

I work to take care of my family, not the other way around.

— Brian J. White

My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.

— Junot Diaz

When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.

— Claire McCaskill

I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.

— Bonnie Hunt

✗Opposing Perspectives

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

— Hilda Solis

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

— Dolores Huerta