Affordable Care Act Quotes - Page 2

• Senator [Tom] Cotton and his fellow lawmakers are back in D.C. and Republicans are split, they are divided about what to do with the repeal to feel Affordable Care Act. That`s topic that Senator Cotton was really berated for at that town hall event that almost did not happen.

  Rachel Maddow

  Care, Splits, Cotton

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Tom Cotton] has been an absolute champion of the idea of getting rid of Obamacare, scrapping the Affordable Care Act.

  Rachel Maddow

  Ideas, Obamacare, Champion

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There's a radical insurgency, which is a large part of the Republican base, which is willing to do anything, destroy the country, whatever, in order to get rid of this Affordable Care Act. That's the one thing that they're able to hang onto.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Order, Care

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Building great public schools and universities, a strong health care system, including keeping the Affordable Care Act, and then an economy that works well for people so that when they put in a hard day's work, they can support themselves and their family members. Those are the fundamentals that have distinguished America from other nations in the world.

  Joaquin Castro

  Strong, School, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We have health insurance companies playing a major role in the provision of healthcare, both to the employed whose employers provide health insurance, and to those who are working but on their own are not able to afford it and their employers either don't provide it, or don't provide it at an affordable price. We are still struggling. We've made a lot of progress. Ten million Americans now have insurance who didn't have it before the Affordable Care Act, and that is a great step forward.

  Hillary Clinton

  Struggle, Progress, Roles

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• You look at something like health care, the Affordable Care Act. And for all the controversy, we now have 20 million people who have health insurance who didn't have it. It's actually proven to be more effective, cheaper than even advocates like me expected.

  Barack Obama

  People, Looks, Care

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• The Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, I want to improve it. I want to build on it, get the costs down, get prescription drug costs down. Senator Sanders wants us to start all over again. This was a major achievement of President [Barack] Obama, of our country. It is helping people right now.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, People, Achievement

  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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• The Affordable Care Act reduces the deficit considerably. I would simply point out to you that the Supreme Court has spoken, the American people have spoken, congressional leaders of both parties have spoken, and we're going to continue with implementation.

  Jay Carney

  Party, People, Leader

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• Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed.

  Barack Obama

  Law, Care, Said

  "Obama: 'What We Said Was You Can Keep It If It Hasn't Changed Since The Law Passed'" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 4, 2013.

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• Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us?

  Henry Rollins

  Games, Long, Care

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• Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, College, Class

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick.

  Richard Trumka

  Lying, Sick, Care

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• The White House approved an exemption in Obamacare coverage for Congress and members of their staff. Members complained that the Affordable Care Act will cost them thousands extra a year in premiums. Wait a minute. It's their bill. If it's too expensive, why did they name it the Affordable Care Act?

  Jay Leno

  Years, Names, Obamacare

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• The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.

  John Roberts

  Care, May, Pay

  "US supreme court surprises with decision to uphold healthcare reform" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2012.

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• A central notion in the Affordable Care Act was we had an inefficient system with a lot of waste that didn't also deliver the kind of quality that was needed that often put health care providers in a box where they wanted to do better for their patients, but financial incentives were skewed the other way... We don't need to reinvent the wheel; you're already figuring out what works to reduce infections in hospitals or help patients with complicated needs.

  Barack Obama

  Health, Quality, Needs

  Barack Obama's remarks Marking the Fifth Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act at the South Court Auditorium in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 25, 2015.

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• Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.

  Antonin Scalia

  Yield, Government, Usual

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.233, Regnery Publishing

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• I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.

  Al Franken

  Fall, Cutting, People

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• If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

  Jerrold Nadler

  Government, Minorities, Undoing

  "A Fundamental Challenge to Democracy" by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2013.

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• With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.

  Thomas R. Insel

  People, Addiction, Principles

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• The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Care, Way, Foundation

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• Certainly there was the Affordable Care Act part, then unaccompanied children [there has been a surge of children entering the country illegally and without parents, particularly in Texas], and things like, we find smallpox in an NIH lab, after 50 years? Why didn't you find it, like, five weeks ago or three years ago? There was thing after thing. But the big ones were [dealing with] the Ebola [outbreak], the unaccompanied children. [It was] perhaps a bigger challenge than I had calculated on my yellow pad as I was thinking about this role.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Country, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Who knows what exactly changed Tom Cotton`s mind. I mean, maybe it was that woman who said her husband was dying and only alive thanks to the Affordable Care Act. Maybe it was the young woman on your right side of your screen who said that without the treatment she could only receive through the Affordable Care Act she herself would be dead.

  Rachel Maddow

  Husband, Mean, Mind

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Say good-bye to the Affordable Care Act. That means 20 million people who lose their health insurance, just like that.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Mean, Bye, People

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Today, all across this country there are going to be rallies led by Democrats and others to fight against the devastating impact of repeal of the Affordable Care Act. 20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back against that.

  John Lewis

  Senior, Country, Fighting

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Right at the heart of the Affordable Care Act is the ban on insurance companies discriminating against people with a pre-existing condition. And this part of the Affordable Care Act makes sure that health care is not just for the healthy and wealthy.

  Ron Wyden

  Heart, People, Healthy

  Source: www.npr.org

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