We need a vibrant Medicaid program and s... by Jan Schakowsky

Politician Care Health Democrat Illinois

We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.

- Jan Schakowsky

Other quotes by Jan Schakowsky

Economy

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.

- Jan Schakowsky

Health Care End

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

- Jan Schakowsky

Disaster American

I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

- Jan Schakowsky

Health Care

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

- Jan Schakowsky

Fact War

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

- Jan Schakowsky

War Years

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

- Jan Schakowsky

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