Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

Every American has a right to affordable high-quality health care.

Most illegals are without health insurance and when these workers need emergency healthcare the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.

The result was of course that today tragically more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance and for many not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.

If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.

By the Obama administration's reasoning it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.

Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.

We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals families and businesses.

Our health care system is the finest in the world but we still have too many uninsured Americans too high prices for prescription drugs and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.

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.