Rachel Maddow Quotes

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 worked with President Obama on the Affordable Care Act and getting health coverage to all Americans. It was my legislation that said insurance companies can no longer deny coverage for kids with preexisting conditions.

We have to tell the stories of the everyday Americans who are adversely impacted by these policies. That's how we were able to keep the Affordable Care Act from being repealed. People told their stories; people showed up at Town Hall.

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

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

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

Thousands of people in my district need health insurance, and ACA is helping them. I'm committed to do everything I can to help people get enrolled and get covered, and that includes moving needed reforms for the bill and helping people find affordable coverage.

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

Under Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson, more people will have coverage, and we protect those with pre-existing conditions.

I support the Affordable Care Act and believe we should take steps to further expand coverage and reduce costs.

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.

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.

I usually stay out of politics, but people have asked me whether the American Healthcare Act (AHCA), if passed by the Senate, will affect me personally. I'm about music, not politics, but the fact is this one has me freaked out for poor and disabled people.

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.

You look at something like health care, the Affordable Care Act. And for all the controversy, we now have 20 million people who have health insurance who didn't have it. It's actually proven to be more effective, cheaper than even advocates like me expected.

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

ObamaCare is to health care as a fart is to an elevator.

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

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

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

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

Each and every day, more people pay the price of Obamacare's mountain of mandates. As I travel across the country, I continue to hear from Americans who want Washington to take its hands off of their healthcare.

I told them I would work to strengthen and secure Medicare for generations to come, and I told them I would fight for a new prescription drug benefit under Medicare.

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

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.