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Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.

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

I believe health care is a civil right.

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.

I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.

I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's as simple as that.

Health care should be affordable for everyone.

I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.