Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care and $50 million in preventative care is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.
In Illinois community migrant homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.
Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist.
Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.
There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor hungry uneducated and without health coverage.
Nurses are an integral component of the health care system and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.
I think that the millions and millions of young Americans young Americans who have health care today who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.
Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people including senior citizens.
I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers which I do not underestimate.
But you say does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.