Valerie Jarrett Quotes

One of the best moments of the Obama presidency was the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

Happy birthday Obamacare! Five years ago today you came into our lives and nothing's ever been the same since! Our insurance premiums have skyrocketed and our doctor choices have plummeted.

Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

There is simply no human justification for any American to suffer illness or neglect preventive care because of this fear of hospital bills and of the exorbitant prices of medicine.

It is not only a moral imperative that we cover everybody (with insured heath care), it has become an economic necessity.

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

Americans firmly rejected Republican legislative efforts to repeal the ACA - only 17 percent supported it.

The need for health care doesn't come with a party label.

I support Medicare for all. It is my preferred policy.

Like many of you, I was very disappointed at the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.

Not passing Obamacare won't bankrupt America; passing it will.

The Affordable Care Act has clearly, as Secretary Clinton made the point, done a lot of good things, but, what it has not done is dealt with the fact we have 29 million people today who have zero health insurance, we have even more who are underinsured with large deductibles and copayments and prescription drug prices are off the wall.

The CEO of The Cheesecake Factory is now warning that Obamacare will be very costly. Hey, The Cheesecake Factory is one of the reasons we need Obamacare in the first place.

Those are things that we're going to be discussing over the next several weeks. But certainly ObamaCare is something that isn't very popular around the country. In fact, it's like an 80/20 issue right now for Republicans. It's not working. People aren't choosing their doctor. They're not keeping their health care. Premiums are not going down, they're going up.

People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.

We will cover those folks that are on ObamaCare that need to be covered, but at the same time, we're going to find ways to lower prices, allow people to choose better doctors, and have a lot more freedom when it comes to health care.

Say good-bye to the Affordable Care Act. That means 20 million people who lose their health insurance, just like that.

Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.

When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them.

Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.

Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're helping people getting better paying jobs so they can provide for their own health care.