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" We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible. "
Kathleen Sebelius
People
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" The secretary actually already has a good deal of authority within the confines of the Affordable Care Act. Step one really is a question of whether or not HHS will continue to reimburse insurance companies for cost-sharing expenses. "
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Step
Authority
" Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America. "
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Together
Live
Work
" In this 21st century world, some of our country's most significant exports and imports extend beyond goods and services: They also include innovation, knowledge, discovery, and healing. "
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Knowledge
World
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" But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care. "
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Care
Education
" There are people in this country who have waited for decades for affordable health coverage for themselves and their families. "
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Country
Health
" The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America. "
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Men
Community
Great
" We've been finding that when you empower engineers, scientists, and coders, they respond by creating new tools to empower physicians, patients, and parents. "
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Parents
Finding
Tools
" The Democratic plan in the 'Affordable Care Act' has, I would say, more government support, more government regulation around trying to protect the finances of individuals, trying to protect people who had pre-existing conditions, making sure that they could actually be in an insurance market and not set off to the side. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Care
Government
Plan
" The lower income individuals, under any Republican proposal, at least that I have seen, are real losers in the framework because there is not enough subsidy, not enough assistance, for them to realistically participate in the market. Particularly if you halt or rollback the Medicaid expansion, which is for the lowest income workers. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Expansion
Real
Enough
" Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. That's what change looks like. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Refuse
Looks
Like
" If you're self-employed, between jobs, or can't get insurance through work, you'll have access to affordable health insurance as good as Congressman Paul Ryan's. "
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Health
You
Jobs
" General Motors spends more on health care than steel. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Health Care
Steel
More
" I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers. "
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Powerful
Know
Stand
" To me, part of the magic of this era is that the very same innovations, discoveries, and technologies that are allowing us to live longer, healthier lives are also creating a healthier economy. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Same
Me
Creating
" I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Career
Insurance
Worst
" I was governor of Kansas when Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Kansas
Governor
Massachusetts
" I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Want
Insurance
Rules
" But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Care
Comfort
Face
" We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food. "
Kathleen Sebelius
More
Nation
Care
" A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Listening
Many
State
" In many ways, human health is the great global connector. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Great
Ways
Many
" Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Looks
Like
Change
" While closing our innovation gaps won't solve all our problems, we have some very real opportunities to improve the quality of care that's delivered to millions of Americans. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Innovation
Problems
Our
" The essence of good government is trust. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Good
Government
Trust
" I think one of the most underreported and untouted benefits of the Affordable Care Act is the real investments we are finally making in this country in prevention. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Real
Think
Prevention
" Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Children
Us
More
" But for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor. Because no matter who you are, what stage of life you're in, this law is a good thing. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Honor
You
Matter
" If you're under 26, you can stay on your parents' plan. You can go back to school or get extra training without fear of a health catastrophe bankrupting your family. Over three million previously uninsured young adults are now on their parents' plans. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Family
Health
Parents
" The premium tax credit that is in the Obama plan is exactly that - it is a tax credit, and it isn't cash. It is a discount on the amount that you pay for an individual policy based on your family size and your income. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Size
Family
Credit
" From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act. "
Kathleen Sebelius
Rights
Voting
Voting Rights