The reality doesn't live up to the rhetoric. Health savings accounts are only escalating this crisis by shifting the cost onto working families ? making it more difficult to access medical care and more difficult to provide for our families.

Their rhetoric does not match the reality of what they have done.

It's very exciting. If feels like this contract is about hope for the future, rather than the status quo.

These cuts to Medicaid are a step backwards on the road to ensuring that every Minnesotan has access to quality, affordable health care. Promising to make health care more affordable, while simultaneously cutting Medicaid for our most vulnerable citizens, is not a Minnesota value.

between the rhetoric here in Washington and the reality on the ground.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.