Jan Schakowsky Quotes

In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.

Democrats embrace The Affordable Care Act. We're very proud of it.

We need to make every effort to ensure Obamacare is never implemented.

We need to build on the progress of the Affordable Care Act, not tear it down in the middle of a global pandemic.

I say to people who are opposed to the Affordable Care Act, What is the alternative?” I don’t hear any answers.

In the Senate, I will defend the protections in the Affordable Care Act, and expand health care to more Americans.

I've said from the beginning that Obamacare is an imperfect piece of legislation that is designed to do a very important thing for this country. It's not perfect, and repealing it is a terrible idea.

While Senator Collins continues to put the Affordable Care Act - and protections for Mainers with pre-existing conditions - at risk, I've fought to protect and expand access to health care here in Maine.

The ACA - popularly known as 'Obamacare' - has been an important step forward toward an admirable goal: providing access to health insurance for all Americans. But like many reforms generated by the political process, the ACA is problematic.

I don't want to fix Obamacare, I want to get rid of it.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Thanks to President Barack Obama, under the Affordable Care Act, millions more people will be eligible for health insurance, including many people with HIV.

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

With health care, despite the fact that we as a nation have already chosen to provide health care in one form or another to everyone, we have, until Obamacare, chosen to pick the least cost-effective means, a mix of private and public offerings, of providing that care. That makes no sense.

We must not extend nor expand Obamacare. We need a completely different solution to help those caught in the Obamacare snare.

For all the banging from the Left that, you know, 'They don't care about people with pre-existing conditions' - There was never a day where our conference was willing to leave people out in the cold.

Obamacare is not working for Mississippians, who have had fewer choices and higher costs since that bill was passed.

Under Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson, more people will have coverage, and we protect those with pre-existing conditions.

With Obamacare's fate in jeopardy, Democrats have no solutions to solve the mess they forced upon Americans.

We must focus on strengthening the Affordable Care Act in ways that protect families and small businesses, and not on stripping away coverage from the most vulnerable.

I bemoaned the pending loss of Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act.

I served on the committee in the U.S. House that wrote the Affordable Care Act. I defended it back home in endless town halls. I got elected to the Senate, and when no one wanted to stand up for the ACA in its early days, I took up the cause, going to the Senate floor nearly every week to extol its virtues.