There’s a new spirit of change in America.
Last November, the American people chose to move forward to a better future together. Old divisions were put aside, and Americans from all walks of life, all parts of the nation, and all beliefs and creeds joined together to say that we can—we must—find a better way.
In few areas is the need for change so great and so urgent as in health care. Countless Americans face each visit to the doctor not just with apprehension about their medical condition but with real fear that an illness could bring financial ruin. The threat of medical bankruptcy is not a reality in other developed countries, where a higher priority is placed on guaranteeing access to health-care coverage. Other developed nations also surpass us in areas such as affordability and quality. Americans spend more than 50 percent more per capita on health care than the next most expensive country, and the United States has the highest number of preventable deaths among developed countries. It’s profoundly wrong that in a nation with the greatest hospitals and the most innovative medical research in the world, millions of our citizens are denied the basic right to quality health care they can afford.
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