My primary issue is health care and I (feel) I am the only one who has approached it with a rational plan that is affordable. What I don't want is the Canadian plan where a person goes to the doctor 200 times a year because they are lonely.

Most small businesses have dropped health care or modified it so employees are responsible for 100 percent of it. That's not health care coverage. I also want to lower the age for Medicare coverage to birth.

Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.

Right now, health care is the issue, because the company, in the form of its CEO, Rick Wagoner, made a big spectacle at the shareholders' meeting last month. They're saying we're in this big crisis. My question, and most of the [union] leadership's question, is, show us the crisis. Where have you been spending the money?

Communication is an essential component of health care.

The context for these events is a primary health care system that has suffered from a decrease in resources and is struggling to manage the expectations placed on it.