Fred Upton Quotes

The simple truth is that the implementation of Obamacare has hurt Americans and their health care more than it has helped.

Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.

Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.

Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.

This [the debate over Obamacare] was never about health care; it is about freedom of choice.

Obamacare was very attractive, particularly to those without health insurance.

Republicans should embrace the possibility that Obamacare could pave the way toward lower health care entitlement spending overall. That won't be easy. But it's not unthinkable, either.

I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.

It's not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane Americans who worry about committing a trillion dollars to it.

We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

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.

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.

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

The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

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

I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.

We will have health care reform in America.

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

There were plenty of reasons to suspect Obamacare might have been a colossal failure - although none of them had to do with death panels, huge lines for treatment, a government takeover of health care, etc.

This Obamacare program has Obama's name on it. He lied to people for three years about this program. People trusted him. People believed what he told them. They believed that he was going to improve the health care system in this country, and it was going to get cheaper, more affordable, more plentiful.

We need to reform the health code so that people are incentivized to buy their own health insurance rather than have to get it through an employer.