Affordable Care Act Quotes

• What sensible people have got to do is not simply repeal the Affordable Care Act without any alternative, but you've got to sit down and say it's OK, what are the problems. How do we address it? How do we move to universal health care? How do we lower prescription drug costs? How do we make sure that people don't have outrageous deductibles? You just don't throw 20 million people off of health insurance. You don't privatize Medicare.

  John Lewis

  Moving, People, Drug

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on. Well, the Fugitive Slave Act was the law, separate but equal was the law, lots of things are the law and then we change them.

  George Will

  Moving, Law, Care

  "George Will Compares This Budget Deadlock To Past Conflicts". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 9, 2013.

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• The Affordable Care Act is a huge problem. [Repealing the ACA is] going to have huge implications. We have millennials that live in Boston that are on their parents' health insurance. The businesses have hired them and have been able to hire more people because they have been able to be on their own health insurance. We have seniors in our city who have preexisting conditions, or something called a "donut hole," which is a prescription drug [gap] in Medicare. Whatever changes they make could have detrimental effects on people's health care, but also on the economy.

  Marty Walsh

  Senior, Boston, Cities

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I want very much to save what works and is good about the Affordable Care Act.

  Hillary Clinton

  Care, Want, Affordable

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• One of the things that the Affordable Care Act has done, which is advantageous to consumers, is created marketplaces, where people can go online and comparison-shop. That was very hard to do before the Affordable Care Act, especially for people who had individual insurance policies.

  David Blumenthal

  People, Done, Care

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Yet another video has emerged of MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber calling Americans 'stupid,' and bragging about how the Affordable Care Act's drafters had to deceive the public in order to pass the law.

  Alexander Viets Griswold

  Stupid, Law, Obamacare

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• Working to get the Affordable Care Act to cover everybody and get the cost down will work better and every analyst who's looked at what I want to do compared to Senator [Bernie] Sanders has reached the same conclusion.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cost, Want, Analysts

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• In Indiana, the Affordable Care Act will raise the average cost of health insurance in the individual market by an unaffordable 72 percent.

  Mike Pence

  Average, Cost, Care

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody.

  Hillary Clinton

  Waiting, Succeed, Littles

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a tax, and that was going to, itself, be a political albatross.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Spring, Political, Would Be

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I am on the Health Education Labor Committee. That committee wrote the Affordable Care Act. The idea I would dismantle health care in America while we're waiting to pass a Medicare for all is just not accurate.

  Bernie Sanders

  Ideas, America, Health Education

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• The Affordable Care Act has clearly, as Secretary Clinton made the point, done a lot of good things, but, what it has not done is dealt with the fact we have 29 million people today who have zero health insurance, we have even more who are underinsured with large deductibles and copayments and prescription drug prices are off the wall.

  Bernie Sanders

  Zero, Wall, People

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• Republicans in Congress have already taken the initial steps to start repealing the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are hoping to at the very least slow that process down by rallying public support for the health care law.

  Rachel Martin

  Taken, Law, Support

  "Democrats Rally In Dozens Of Cities To Oppose Obamacare Repeal", bpr.org. January 16, 2017.

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• The Affordable Care Act is no longer affordable.

  Donald Trump

  Care, Affordable

  "ABC News anchor David Muir interviews President Trump". abcnews.go.com. January 25, 2017.

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• It was interesting, when the Affordable Care Act passed, Arizona did it immediately, even though they had two Republican senators, a Republican governor, Republican legislature.

  Tim Kaine

  Two, Interesting, Arizona

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What the Affordable Care Act started was a change in the American health care system from paying for procedures to paying for outcomes, paying for health. Other nations have already made that move. We pay for procedures and we get the best procedures in the world and we get the most procedures in the world, and then we spend a huge chunk of our GDP on health care, but we don't have the best outcomes.

  Tim Kaine

  Moving, Gdp, Outcomes

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Nations that pay for outcomes and health actually spend a lower percentage of GDP, and they have better outcomes. And so the Affordable Care Act is starting to make that migration, but we've got to keep down that path, and we'll improve outcomes and reduce cost.

  Tim Kaine

  Gdp, Migration, Path

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The governor of Minnesota [Mark Dayton], a couple of months ago he said that the Affordable Care Act is no longer affordable. He's a staunch Democrat. Very strong Democrat. He said it's no longer affordable. He made that statement. And Bill Clinton on the campaign trail - and he probably had a bad night that night when he went home - but he said, "Obamacare is crazy. It's crazy." And you know what, they were both right.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Couple, Crazy

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• Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Law, Obamacare, President

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• I never said that. The fact is we are going to open over hundreds of stores this year and next and increase employment by over 5,000 jobs worldwide. And, we have no plans to cut team hours as a result of the Affordable Care Act.

  John Schnatter

  Jobs, Team, Cutting

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• Some Democrats and their advocates in the press believe Obamacare, a year into implementation, is no longer much of a factor in the midterm elections. But no one has told Republican candidates, who are still pounding away at the Affordable Care Act on the stump. And no one has told voters, especially those in states with closely contested Senate races, who regularly place it among the top issues of the campaign.

  Byron York

  Believe, Race, Years

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• I don't think it's any secret I've never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.

  Brian Sandoval

  Thinking, Secret, Care

  "Brian Sandoval's Smart Health Care Decision" by Charles P.Pierce, www.esquire.com. December 12, 2012.

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• The Affordable Care Act is here to stay.

  Barack Obama

  Care, Affordable

  Twitter post from Jun 25, 2015

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• Senator [Tom] Cotton has campaigned on wanting to kill Obamacare. He voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act back in January, but he now says, despite these marathon all-night sessions going on in the House, Republicans need to do better, they need to start over, they need to come up with something that the Senate says will actually reduce prices for insurance and keep it affordable.

  Rachel Maddow

  Night, Obamacare, Starting Over

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Two committees in the house were up all night long trying to get a version of the repeal of the Affordable Care Act passed. House Republicans are just fighting tooth and nail to pass it in the House, to try to get it into the Senate, to try to make it then so that the Senate will get on board. But you know who one of the Republican senators is who`s not on board with this anymore? Senator Tom Cotton.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fighting, Night, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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