Mark DeSaulnier: “One of our basic responsibilities as elected officials is to care for the well-being of our constituents, and that means…”

We already have a universal health care system in this country, it is just really bad.

I am concerned by the proposals to take us backward.

That was the most extreme in the ten years I have been here in Congress.

When ERISA was enacted in 1974, Congress made its intent clear. The law's primary purpose is to 'protect the interest of participants in employee benefit plans, and their beneficiaries.'