2012 Democratic National Convention speeches: on Health Care

Bill Clinton: ObamaCare has already insured millions and reduced costs

1. Individuals and businesses have already gotten more than $1 billion in refunds from insurance companies because the new law requires 80% of your premium to go to your health care, not profits or promotion.
2. More than 3 million young people between 19 and 25 are insured for the first time because their parents' policies can cover them.
3. Millions of seniors are receiving preventive care
4. Soon the insurance companies will have millions of new customers, many of them middle-class people with pre-existing conditions who never could get insurance before.
5. For the last two years, health care costs have been under 4% in both years for the first time in 50 years.

Barack Obama: Ignored advice to postpone reform, because it was needed

He did it because he believes that here in America, our grandparents should be able to afford their medicine; our kids should be able to see a doctor when they're sick; and no one in this country should ever go broke because of an accident or illness.

And he believes that women are more than capable of making our own choices about our bodies and our health care--that's what my husband stands for.