US Presidency
2013

For example, we should be willing to look at fresh ideas to revamp unemployment and disability programs to encourage faster and higher rates of re employment without cutting benefits. We shouldn't weaken fundamental protections built over generations, because given the constant churn in today's economy and the disabilities that many of our friends and neighbors live with, they're needed more than ever. We should strengthen them and adapt them to new circumstances so they work even better. But understand that these programs of social insurance benefit all of us, because we don't know when we might have a run of bad luck. We don't know when we might lose a job. Of course, for decades, there was one yawning gap in the safety net that did more than anything else to expose working families to the insecurities of today's economy namely, our broken health care system. That's why we fought for the Affordable Care Act because 14,000 Americans lost their health insurance every single day, and even more died each year because they didn't have health insurance at all.