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“I’m absolutely confident that if all of you decide to take up this cause, that if you have made a determination that you are tired of the America that has been because you imagine the America that is laid out before us; and if you’re willing to put your shoulder to the wheel of history at this moment, that amazing things can happen.”
— Austin, TX, February 23, 2007
As a State Senator in Illinois, Obama sponsored bills that increased access to basic health care for 20,000 children who had no insurance (Kidcare). Senator Obama states that there is no excuse for 46 million citizens living within the wealthiest nation on earth to be without even the most basic health care coverage. Senator Obama supports:
“Well, the skeptics must be living somewhere else. Because when you see what the health care crisis is doing to our families, to our economy, to our country, you realize that caution is what’s costly. Inaction is what’s risky. Doing nothing is what’s impossible when it comes to health care in America.”
“Almost half of all small businesses no longer offer health care to their workers, and so many others have responded to rising costs by laying off workers or shutting their doors for good. Some of the biggest corporations in America, giants of industry like GM and Ford, are watching foreign competitors based in countries with universal health care run circles around them, with a GM car containing twice as much health care cost as a Japanese car.”