Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

As patients and consumers we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

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.

Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy from engineering to health care workers forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits many others are unemployed underemployed without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.

Well my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that don't have anything to do with health care.

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

We have one of the few societies the only one I can think of right offhand where your health care is so tied to your job so that when an American company has to hire they have to think about health care.