Terri Sewell Quotes

The Affordable Care Act was passed in large part because of recognition that our nation's health care system is not working. The act is not perfect, but it is a starting point, and we have been using it to improve the health of Coloradans.

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.

To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past.

But for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor. Because no matter who you are, what stage of life you're in, this law is a good thing.

Obamacare is, 'Patient, heal yourself.'

We're underscoring to everybody the promise at the heart of the Affordable Care Act, which is quality, affordable health care coverage available in a transparent marketplace for the first time ever.

Hispanics have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act.

Let's lower costs for health care. Let's put patients in charge of their solutions.

We need to work together to strengthen protections for pre-existing conditions and improve upon the gains made under the ACA, not tear it down.

What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.

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

Thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, preventive care services, including contraception, will be covered by private insurance plans without co-pays or deductibles.

The Affordable Care Act has been designed to provide health security by driving competition, lowering premiums, and protecting families.

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system.

I believe in health care reform.

For those of us who originally disagreed with ObamaCare and now disagree with the majority opinion of the SCOTUS, the challenge remains the same as it would have been had the Court ruled otherwise. We need to elect Mitt Romney and House and Senate majorities that will repeal ObamaCare and replace it with free-market, pro-liberty solutions.

I think one of the most underreported and untouted benefits of the Affordable Care Act is the real investments we are finally making in this country in prevention.

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

Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. That's what change looks like.

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

We are making health care a human right which, after all, is the purpose of Obamacare.

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

We need to make sure pre-existing conditions are taken care of, but propping up Obamacare, a failing system, is not the way to do it.

Some contend that, by fulfilling our promise to the American people, we're somehow trying to go back to the way things were before ObamaCare - which we all know is untrue.