Tom Graves Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.

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.

Perhaps the biggest economic shift during Obama's presidency came from a piece of legislation that wasn't sold as such. On March 21, 2010, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. It was Obama's boldest piece of legislation and the one that will most likely define him.

I've said from the beginning that Obamacare is an imperfect piece of legislation that is designed to do a very important thing for this country. It's not perfect, and repealing it is a terrible idea.

Obamacare is not working for Mississippians, who have had fewer choices and higher costs since that bill was passed.

We need to build on the progress of the Affordable Care Act, not tear it down in the middle of a global pandemic.

I bemoaned the pending loss of Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act.

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.

The Affordable Care Act is not perfect, and I would vote to build on its success while fixing what doesn't work.

Obamacare wouldn't exist - it's saved millions of lives - without Pelosi getting it through the House. Not a perfect piece of legislation, but she deserves a lot of credit for that.

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

I say to people who are opposed to the Affordable Care Act, What is the alternative?” I don’t hear any answers.

I'm not one to say many good things about Obamacare, but one of the nice things in it is it does give a tremendous amount of authority to the secretary of HHS.

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.

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

I don't want to fix Obamacare, I want to get rid of it.

There isn't a lot of honesty when it comes to discussing Obamacare. Too many Republicans lie about the implications of the health-insurance program and dismiss out of hand the reasons a massive overhaul of the long-time system is necessary.

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

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