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As first lady, Hillary Clinton spent the early months of her husband's administration drafting healthcare-reform legislation, only to see it put on the back burner by the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.

A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.

Most Americans want health insurance.

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

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

We've also seen another future we could choose. First of all, we'd have the right to choose. It's an America in which no one can charge us more than men for the exact same health insurance; in which no one can deny us affordable access to the cancer screenings that could save our lives; in which we decide when to start our families.

I don't know if there is a Democrat who necessarily doesn't believe health care is a right instead of privilege. There is a significant between us and the Republican Party on that issue.

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.