Sharice Davids Quotes

I am an Obamacare agnostic - if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it's a great thing. If it doesn't, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.

The ACA - popularly known as 'Obamacare' - has been an important step forward toward an admirable goal: providing access to health insurance for all Americans. But like many reforms generated by the political process, the ACA is problematic.

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.

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

In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.

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

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

The United States of America is the only country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all of its people as a right.

With health care, despite the fact that we as a nation have already chosen to provide health care in one form or another to everyone, we have, until Obamacare, chosen to pick the least cost-effective means, a mix of private and public offerings, of providing that care. That makes no sense.

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

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

We need to make every effort to ensure Obamacare is never implemented.

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

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.

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.

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 have been following the attempt to initiate or revamp federal involvement in the health of Americans since it was a major topic for my high school debating team in 1947.

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

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

If the government didn't try to guarantee that everybody should have access to decent health care, it wouldn't happen.

We have to bring relief as fast as possible to people who are struggling under Obamacare.

Democrats stand ready and willing to work with President Trump to improve upon the ACA - but we will not sit by and watch him sabotage the health care of millions of Americans.

So let's find a way to protect people differently than Obamacare, because Obamacare's answer was, 'Just make everybody pay more'.

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