Affordable Care Act Quotes - Page 3

• The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they're going to repeal. They don't know what to replace it with.

  Charles Schumer

  Care, Republican, Good Things

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• If you want to improve the Affordable Care Act, let's work together. But if you think you're simply going to throw millions off of health insurance, you got another guess coming.

  Rachel Martin

  Thinking, Working Together, Care

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Donald Trump has every intention to repeal the Affordable Care Act, as much because it's known as Obamacare [as because he wants] to try and deconstruct the legacy of President Obama. But that has implications that mean women who were accessing family planning and contraception as a preventative service with no co-pay will lose access to that coverage. We [will] only see an exacerbation of the things we were engaged in trying to prevent - like unplanned pregnancy and the need for abortion, which creates a societal dilemma.

  Willie Parker

  Pregnancy, Mean, Obamacare

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• Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.

  Barack Obama

  Psychics, Desire, Income

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The vast majority of the American people agree with me and many others. You don't simply repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement. Republicans have had six years to come up with a replacement. They got nothing.

  John Lewis

  Years, People, Six

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I heard a lot about the Affordable Care Act, too. About how people in the individual market were getting clobbered with all these increases, which is a legitimate issue.

  Collin Peterson

  Issues, People, Care

  "Why rural voters don’t vote Democratic anymore". Interview with Christopher Ingraham, bangordailynews.com. November 23, 2016.

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• The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Obamacare, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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