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We need for America to get back to basics and focus on the middle class's quality of life. Healthcare reform is vital to restoring that standard of living.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

We will have health care reform in America.

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.

The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.

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

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.