Elissa Slotkin Quotes

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 Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.

If the idea behind Obamacare was to get everyone covered, that's one of the many failures.

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

Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.

To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have.

I'm glad that Gov. Scott down in Florida accepted ObamaCare, because it will work.

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

It is not only a moral imperative that we cover everybody (with insured heath care), it has become an economic necessity.

We're going to do things that are going to make this country better and reduce the cost of health care.

When Obamacare was introduced, Republicans and Democrats knew the status quo wasn't working. But Republicans rejected the notion that to help 2 million people with preexisting conditions get access to care, we needed a 2,000-page bill that transformed one-sixth of the economy.

Health care is a human right, and single-payer health care will deliver quality, affordable care to every Illinoisan.

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

With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.

We must continue our work to improve and strengthen health care for Georgians, and we must defend the vital protections and programs that protect the health and wellbeing of families across our nation.

I am of the view that the Affordable Care Act will be a transformative piece of legislation that can lower the cost of health care in the United States - perhaps our greatest fiscal obstacle - and help all Americans lead healthy and productive lives, free from worry that a single illness could mean ruin for an entire family.

That's what healthcare reform is about: the middle class's economic security.

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

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.

Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.

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

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

Obamacare is going to destroy our economy and destroy our freedom.