Obamacare Quotes

• The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

  Charlie Daniels

  America, Socialist Government, Citizens

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• The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

  Paul Ryan

  Threat, Medicare

  Twitter post from Aug 30, 2012

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• The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

  Sarah Palin

  Baby, Love Is, America

  "Will the Real Death Panel Please Step Forward?" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

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• If ObamaCare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, I'd be dead.

  Herman Cain

  Cancer, Election, Caught

  "VIDEO: Herman Cain says he'd 'be dead' under 'ObamaCare'" by Geneva Sands, thehill.com. August 19, 2011.

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• What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the largest spending initiatives we will ever see in our country. And also, it will take away choice from the American people.

  Michele Bachmann

  Country, People, Choices

  "Rep. Michele Bachmann Talks Earmarks, Obamacare and Gay Marriage; Sen. Kyl on Debt Talks". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. June 26, 2011.

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• I want, we're going to repeal and replace Obamacare. Obamacare is a total and complete disaster. It's going to be gone.

  Donald Trump

  Gone, Want, Disaster

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!

  Michele Bachmann

  Medicine, Done, Want

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• Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

  Paul Ryan

  Grandparent, President, Dollars

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.

  Benjamin Carson

  Crazy, Thinking, Slavery

  "Ben Carson: Obamacare worst thing ‘since slavery’" by Sean Sullivan, www.washingtonpost.com. October 11, 2013.

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• And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

  Paul Ryan

  Elderly, Play, Expenses

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Taken, People

  Interview with George Stephanopoulos, blogs.abcnews.com. April 19, 2011.

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• From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.

  Jeb Hensarling

  Opportunity, Government, President

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

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• Simply put, ObamaCare cost Americans jobs through uncertainty and now implementation threatens even more jobs. No wonder the majority of Americans continue to oppose it.

  Pete Sessions

  Jobs, Majority, Cost

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• If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.

  Herman Cain

  Government, Trying, Able

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• If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.

  John Cornyn

  Meaningful, Government, People

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• Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.

  Fred Upton

  Law, Promise, Cost

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• If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.

  Barack Obama

  Keeping Promises, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

  "Hannity breaks down the ObamaCare 'disaster'; Assange shares advice for Democratic Party". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 04, 2017.

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• Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Ignorance, Stupid People, Stupidity

  "Advocate's Comments On ACA Now A Liability For Law's Supporters". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 9, 2014.

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• Let's fix what's broken about Obamacare, but let's not throw it away and give it all back to the insurance companies and the drug companies.

  Hillary Clinton

  Broken, Giving, Drug

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Maybe democrats will eventually turn on Obamacare when they realize you might need a photo I.D. to participate in the program.

  Dennis Miller

  Needs, Politics, Might

  FaceBook post by Dennis Miller from Sep 25, 2013

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• Obamacare takes effect in less than eight months. Do you realize what this means? If you go to the emergency room now, you'll be covered by the time you finally see a doctor.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mean, Doctors, Eight

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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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• After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.

  Bob Beauprez

  Majority, Pages, Toss

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• Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance,' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.

  John Cornyn

  Morning, Thinking, Government

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• The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

  David A. Siegel

  Would Be, Disaster, Combination

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