When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.
Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.
I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.
We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
Make health care a right, not a privilege.
I ran for president in 1996.
I ran for Congress because I want to make sure others have the same chance at the dream that I had for generations to come.
On the campaign, I've had the privilege of advocating for important issues that affect all women, like demanding equal pay for equal work, pushing to raise our minimum wage, and promoting the idea of paid family leave.
I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.