We fear for our kids, what employment we have left, what housing we have left, what health-care we have left.
And after a long and tough fight, we succeeded -- yes, we did -- in passing health care reform. (Applause.) Thanks to you. (Applause.) And that reform will make a positive difference in the lives of the American people.
Big Data is set to completely change the way we deliver health-care services.
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If someone has glaucoma - that is high pressure in the eyes - we can take care of that, if someone needs refractory surgery - that's surgery to correct focusing problems - we are able to provide that.
With these four measures -- saving Social Security, strengthening Medicare, establishing USA accounts, and supporting long-term care -- we can begin to meet our generation's historic responsibility to establish true security for 21st century seniors.
As America struggles to extend health-care coverage while curbing health-care costs, we face a decision that is more important than whether we have a public-insurance option, more important than whether we will have a single-payer system in the long run or a mixture of public and private insurance, as we do now.
We always talk about -- particularly Democrats -- we talk about health care in terms of the moral imperative.
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We've been talking today about the two things we care about most -- getting our people jobs and keeping our people safe.
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Our long-term deficit, if we can't control health care costs -- I don't care who's talking about eliminating waste from the government, we can't solve the problem.
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We put great care and thought into planning and administering off-campus programs, and we extend the same care to students on these trips as to students on campus.
We need male-friendly approaches capable of engaging with men and we need them soon - especially in primary care and health promotion.
So when we passed the health care bill that we passed -- and it was controversial.
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Singapore spends one-seventh of what we spend on health care, and one-quarter of what Europeans do.
If we fail now to pass cost-saving health care reform, we condemn generations of Americans to a life with little or no health care coverage under the status quo.
"My message will be, let's find a way to work together, to find middle ground on the array of issues we all care about -- whether it's education, patients' bill of rights, prescription drug benefits, energy policy, hate crimes, " he told CNN.
"My message will be, let's find a way to work together, to find middle ground on the array of issues we all care about -- whether it's education, patients' bill of rights, prescription drug benefits, energy policy, hate crimes, " Daschle, of South Dakota, told CNN in an early morning interview.
Number two, we take some programs that we are going to keep, like Medicaid, which is a program for the poor -- we take that health care program for the poor and we give it to the states to run because states run these programs more efficiently.
We don't look at -- we don't look at -- we're not making decisions about health care, the economy, Cash for Clunkers, banks, anything, based on polling, based on what's going to happen in a congressional election.
But we can't expect the health-care industry to continue to innovate and grow if we continue to hoard health information.
Second, we believe that, given that statistical analysis by a wide range of experts that say that between 40% and 70% of health-care costs are behaviorally based, we can do things like investing in wellness and preventive care and preventative screenings to actually reduce health-care costs.
So we -- individual Americans -- have been paying for this health care, saving those companies money, regardless of whether we availed ourselves of their services.
We passed health care reform, also known as, aka Obamacare -- (applause) -- and we did so because I do care.
Until our son was old enough to go to school, we had a full-time babysitter to take care of him downstairs while we worked upstairs.
We would not be -- we would not be where we were, we would not be spending -- what month are we in on health care reform?
So are there ways that we can -- through preventive care, better efficiencies, better management, make the health care system overall more effective?
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Part of the reason we did health care reform -- (applause.) A lot of the reason to do health care reform was because it was the right thing to do.
What we, and independent health-care experts at Mercer Consulting, have found is that individually owned and directed health-care coverage has a startlingly positive effect on costs for both employees and the state.
It changes the way we pay for health care -- not by procedure or the number of days spent in a hospital, but with new incentives for doctors and hospitals to improve their results.
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And it is certainly the case -- but I refer you to the Defense Department for details -- that we take great care in the prosecution of this war and we are very mindful of what our objectives are.
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