Mike Pence Quotes

Though President George W. Bush made some small noises about his intention to present some form of improved health coverage, nothing grew out of them.

I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.

I think one of the lessons we should have learned from what's happened with the current plan is that there is insurance coverage, but there is not really, many times, access to health care. If you have these high deductibles, there is every - there is a disincentive to get the policy, because you would have to pay another - I think the average of deductible policies on the individual market.

I hope the new health care exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act will provide some help.

The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.

The president-elect [Donald Trump] has set a very aggressive agenda, and I think that repealing and replacing Obamacare with the kind of health care reform that'll lower the cost of health insurance without growing the size of government will be job one.

I say we need to repeal Obamacare as fast as we can.

If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

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

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

Long-term, Congress needs to replace Obamacare with market-driven health reform that's affordable for everyday Iowans and empowers consumers.

Hillary herself has said that before it was called Obamacare, it was called Hillarycare. She probably isn't so happy with that comparison now, is she?

We need to repeal and replace Obamacare.

We will see if the situation with the Affordable Care Act ever rights itself or is improved upon.

I am on the Health Education Labor Committee. That committee wrote the Affordable Care Act. The idea I would dismantle health care in America while we're waiting to pass a Medicare for all is just not accurate.

One thing we have to do: Repeal and replace the disaster known as Obamacare.

We're going take a common-sense, step-by-step approach that puts in place the kind of policies that will make our- our health insurance system more what I call patient-centered and lower cost.

Republicans do actually care about health care. They just don't care about government-run health care.

Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party have overseen the destruction of one of the greatest systems of health care in the world.

We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.

One of the reasons I've been interested in the US health care is that here is something you can do, that could lift one of the largest burdens of worry from the shoulders of tens of millions of people for whom the rest of the economy isn't working. A lot of the things that are in Obamacare that Republicans don't like were deliberately put there to force Republicans to negotiate. Republicans wouldn't negotiate, so we got Obamacare with all of the fur on it. Once it's there, of course, it's very hard to take health care benefits away from people, as the Republicans discovered.

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

I still strongly support a full repeal of Obamacare.

It's hard to say that Trump actually has a health care policy.

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