Virginia Foxx Quotes

You cannot keep your plan and have Obamacare at the same time. Obamacare, by definition, gets rid of your plan and replaces it with health care run by the federal government.

Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.

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

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.

My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.

I think Obamacare is one of the greatest moves that will be beneficial for everyone in this country.

In my opinion, real reform, which lowers costs and ensures all Americans get the quality, affordable health care that they deserve, cannot be accomplished without a robust public option.

The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.

Replacing your family's current health care with government-run health care is not the answer. In fact, it'll make health care much more expensive.

The Affordable Care Act was not affordable. The Affordable Care Act is not affordable.

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

We should be working together to make health care and prescription drugs more affordable, not taking away protections that have made such an enormous difference in the lives of so many people in our state and all over the country.

Working to get the Affordable Care Act to cover everybody and get the cost down will work better and every analyst who's looked at what I want to do compared to Senator [Bernie] Sanders has reached the same conclusion.

Folks, we want to end Obamacare. We want to go to a plan that is so much better and so much less expensive, right?

20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back against that.

The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they're going to repeal. They don't know what to replace it with.

I want very much to save what works and is good about the Affordable Care Act.

Health and Human Services has an enormous amount of discretion that they have so far used to make it harder to get affordable health care. To make you buy what the government insists you must buy. That doesn't work.

I will take my hands off Medicare when there is no Medicare, then I will come and see you, sir.

[Several candidates talked of problems with the federal Medicare system, particularly concerns about whether it would cover prescription drug costs in the future.] We're asking senior citizens to make a choice between their health and their income, ... Medicare is probably the most difficult challenge we face in the next century, because it has a lot to do with other things besides money.

if you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.