Cindy Hyde-Smith Quotes

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.

Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.

The Republican Health Care Plan is 'Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.’

Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.

Healthcare is very much a high priority for me. Healthcare is also a huge issue for business, both big and small.

I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.

I believe in health care reform.

When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they're afraid. They say, 'Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I'm scared. Please stop this from happening.'

Remember what Obamacare gave you. Obamacare gave you insurance but not health care. A lot of folks who were technically insured either couldn't afford the premiums or couldn't afford the copay.

Do I think that the ACA is going to force rationing upon the American people? Yes.

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

I support the Affordable Care Act and believe we should take steps to further expand coverage and reduce costs.

As I have always said, the ACA is not without flaws, and I welcome the opportunity to improve the law to make healthcare more affordable and ensure every American has quality health insurance.

Healthcare is consistently the top issue that people talk to me about, and it continues to be one of my top priorities in Congress.

I usually stay out of politics, but people have asked me whether the American Healthcare Act (AHCA), if passed by the Senate, will affect me personally. I'm about music, not politics, but the fact is this one has me freaked out for poor and disabled people.

Republicans do need to communicate that we agree that there are serious health care issues among the American people that we need to solve.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

There are some sick people in this world.

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

I worked with President Obama on the Affordable Care Act and getting health coverage to all Americans. It was my legislation that said insurance companies can no longer deny coverage for kids with preexisting conditions.