Cal Cunningham Quotes

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.

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

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

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

I don't think it's any secret I've never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.

I believe in health care reform.

The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market.

We want to say nobody should lose their health care.

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

I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

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.

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

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.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

We are the only major country in the world that does not guarentee health care to its citizens as a right.

I'll continue to work with my colleagues to fight efforts to roll back access to affordable health care for Nevadans.

Having access to affordable, available health care is not a Republican or Democrat issue.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.

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

We all know we're probably the only industrialized nation that doesn't provide health care.

The Affordable Care Act is a public-policy flop of epic proportions.

A majority of Americans think Obamacare will make health care in our country worse, and they're right.

The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.