With this new children's health initiative, we can provide millions of children the coverage they need to grow up healthy and strong.

Thanks to advances in medical research and our increasing knowledge about prevention and the importance of good nutrition, many childhood diseases and illnesses can now be averted.

We believe there are substantial savings to be made in the Medicare program, and we're going to offer our ways of doing it.

We are pleased to see the reports that the surgery was a success.

Congress agreed to tell insurance companies, newborns and their mothers deserve at least 48 hours in the hospital after childbirth.

I signed the Kennedy-Kassebaum bill to guarantee Americans will not lose health coverage as they change jobs or just because a member of their family gets sick.

Doctors, not rigid insurance company rules, should decide when a new baby goes home.

The cuts they propose would deprive millions of people of health care: poor children, pregnant women, the disabled, seniors in nursing homes.

I will not let you destroy Medicare, and I will veto this bill.

The second point I want to make about Medicaid is, 4 percent inflation sounds like a lot...

The Ryan White CARE Act is a lifeline to thousands of Americans who otherwise have nowhere to turn.

Good health can seem almost a luxury.

For Pedro, and for all Americans infected and affected by HIV, we must intensify our efforts to reduce the rate of HIV infection.

Our system still costs too much and covers too few.

I believe it will achieve universal coverage for all Americans, and that is the one criteria I have set out.

The bill achieves what the American people want, health coverage that can never be taken away.

Achieving universal coverage remains the critical goal.

Our plan gives you your choice of doctors.