Prescription drugs represent only about one-tenth of all health care spending in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

But he never got to reach one of his goals: health coverage for all Americans.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

"This is something,after all, that first came to the attention of the American public one hundred years ago when a national health insurance program was proposed by President Theodore Roosevelt, and successive presidents, mostly Democrats but not all, have favored it."

VOA: special.2010.03.27