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.
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That's what healthcare reform is about: the middle class's economic security.
Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.
But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.
I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.
I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
We will have health care reform in America.
I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.
We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.
When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
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