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Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

That's what healthcare reform is about: the middle class's economic security.

We will have health care reform in America.

Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.

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

The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.

Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.

Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that.