As state leaders I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending access to health care and governing in a global economy.

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

America enjoys the best health care in the world but the best is no good if folks can't afford it access it and doctor's can't provide it.

Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.

America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.

In turn more physicians hospitals and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices moving to other states or simply not providing care.