Watson Coleman: “As I travel and talk to folks across Minnesota, one thing is abundantly clear--Minnesotans, like most Americans, are…”

“As I travel and talk to folks across Minnesota, one thing is abundantly clear--Minnesotans, like most Americans, are more concerned about health care than just about any other issue--and for good reason. As a Nation, we are spending about $2.2 trillion on health care each year, about 16 percent of GDP. This is more than twice what many other developed countries spend, yet 47 million of our fellow Americans are uninsured. And even those with insurance are worried. Worried about the escalating cost of premiums, whether their children will be covered, or whether they will lose their health plan at work. One thing we can all agree on is that inaction is not an option. As these concerns grow and the costs continue to increase, the problem will only get more complex and more difficult to solve. The time for solutions is now. It is in the spirit of finding a solution to our Nation's health care crisis that I recently joined four of my Republican colleagues as a cosponsor of Senator Ron Wyden's Healthy Americans Act.”