Any replacement plan must maintain the ACA's provision of mammograms and other preventative screenings, access to low- or no-cost birth control and reproductive health care.

It's what we've worked on throughout my entire public career.

A replacement must also maintain the ACA's prohibition on discriminatory premium rates, to prevent sending us back to the time when women paid more for their health insurance policies than men, simply because of their gender.

I share your passion for these issues, having spent my life in service to them.

A repeal of the ACA, without the contemporaneous adoption of a comprehensive, well-vetted, comparable replacement plan, would be detrimental to the health of women across the country.

I think that for individuals -- the American people a need to appreciate that the last thing we want to do is go from a Democrat health care system to a Republican health care system.

We all hope that we can help improve the lives of the American people to help heal individuals and whole communities.

To have the opportunity to participate, if confirmed, to serve as the Secretary of Health and Human Services and try to guide that organization in a direction that would further fulfill that mission, I can't think of anything more exciting…

I share with you the concern that you have about the burden of regulatory guidelines and regulatory schemes that come out of Washington, DC.

We must strengthen our resolve to keep the promises our society has made to our senior citizens and to those who are most in need of care and support.

I look forward to making certain that we use the resources available to us and the agencies available to us within the Department to make certain that every single American has the highest quality health care available.