On the recordNovember 15, 2013
I only have a minute, so let me be concise. On Monday, I was in San Diego with 30,000 brain researchers excited about the age of discovery and attacking diseases like Alzheimer's and bipolar and schizophrenia. Yesterday, via satellite, I spoke to a public health conference in Brussels for the European Union. Their theme was that the wealth of their member countries was the health of their population. And then I come to the floor today where we see people who want to retreat from the idea which is to make sure that every single person in our country, for the first time in this Nation's history, has access to affordable health care coverage. There will be no retreat, no equivocation. I know there is this desire among Members on the other team always to somehow go backwards, to some other age in our country as if our future is in the past. Our future and the shaping impulse of our country is in the future, and it is in the health of the citizens of our country.
