I know that it isn't just violence against women it's how do we support ourselves and our families how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.

Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs promote the development of safe effective medicines and guarantee patient rights.

It is important for women to have a choice to have an opportunity to plan their families because if they don't the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own and they're going to begrudge that child everything from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.

American families families back home in Minnesota know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

The concern right now is that families are paying for insurance or getting insurance from their employer and trusting that health care will be available for their families. In too many instances now the care they need isn't available.

We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before during and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.

We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care put money aside for pension buy a home.

For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230 000 a year to cover them.