claim: health reform will "give every american the same opportunity" to buy health insurance the way members of congress do.
author: barack obama
evidence_1: sep 9, 2009 ... full remarks of the president's address to congress on his health care reform  plans. ... as any american who is still looking for work or a way to pay their bills  will tell you, we are by no means out of the woods. a full and .... and it's time to  give every american the same opportunity that we give ourselves.
evidence_2: sep 9, 2009 ... the following is the prepared text of president obama's speech to congress on  the need to overhaul health care, as released by the white house. ... congress  gets affordable insurance. and it's time to give every american the same  opportunity that we've given ourselves. for those individuals and small ...
evidence_3: the issue of health insurance reform in the united states has been the subject of  political debate since the early part of the 20th century. recent reforms remain an  active political issue. alternative reform proposals were offered by both of the  major candidates in the 2008 and 2016 presidential elections.
evidence_4: sep 23, 1993 ... following is a transcript of president clinton's address to a joint session of  congress last night on his plan to overhaul the nation's health care system, ... we  must make this our most urgent priority: giving every american health security,  health care that can never be taken away, health care that is always ...
evidence_5: jan 17, 2017 ... it was a moment that, the princeton sociologist paul starr later argued, would “go  down as one of the great lost political opportunities in american history.” but ...  those americans who couldn't get insurance elsewhere to buy a policy that was  just as good, and inexpensive, as what members of congress got.