“Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.” CareLawFailingPromiseCostHealth CareFlawedTaxpayersObamacareAffordableCoverage Author:Fred Upton
“Simply put, ObamaCare cost Americans jobs through uncertainty and now implementation threatens even more jobs. No wonder the majority of Americans continue to oppose it.” JobsWonderCostMajorityUncertaintyObamacareImplementation Author:Pete Sessions
“Obamacare needs the premiums of healthier people to cover the costs of sicker people. It's a devious con that can only be described as insurance.” PeopleNeedsCostObamacareDevious Author:Stephen Colbert
“The White House approved an exemption in Obamacare coverage for Congress and members of their staff. Members complained that the Affordable Care Act will cost them thousands extra a year in premiums. Wait a minute. It's their bill. If it's too expensive, why did they name it the Affordable Care Act?” IfsYearsCareHouseNamesWaitingWhiteMinutesCostMembersBillsCongressExtrasExpensiveWhite HouseStaffObamacareAffordableCoverageApprovedExemptionAffordable Care ActStaff Members Author:Jay Leno
“If any American really believes that Obamacare is going to control costs, I've got some real estate in Whitewater, Arkansas I'd like to sell them.” IfsBelieveRealCostSellsEstatesObamacareArkansas Author:Jonathan Gruber
“We need to repeal and replace Obamacare. It is the largest tax in U.S. history, has proven to be a job-killer, and has driven up the cost of healthcare.” NeedsJobsCostTaxesDrivenHealthcareKillersProvenObamacare Author:Joni Ernst
“The [Donald's] Trump war on the press continues. Tonight, the national cost of a conservative media bubble, now featuring alien conspiracy theories. And about those Obamacare headlines.” WarMediaTheoryTrumpCostPressesConservativeAliensTonightConspiracyBubblesObamacareHeadlinesConspiracy Theory Author:Chris Hayes
“Obamacare's not imploding. The main goal of Obamacare was two-fold. One was to cover the uninsured, of which we've covered 20 million, the largest expansion in American history. The other was to fix broken insurance markets where insurers could deny people insurance just because they were sick or they had been sick. Those have been fixed, and for the vast majority of Americans, costs in those markets have come down, thanks to the subsidies made available under Obamacare.” PeopleHas BeensMadeTwoGoalMillionsBrokenCostSickMajorityAvailableDenyThanksFixedCoveredAmerican HistoryExpansionFoldsObamacareSubsidies Author:Jonathan Gruber
“Health care costs generally have gone up at a significantly slower rate since ObamaCare was passed than they did before, which has saved the federal Treasury hundreds of billions of dollars.” CareGoneCostDollarsRateBillionsSavedHealth CareObamacareTreasuryHealth Care Costs Author:Barack Obama
“The president-elect [Donald Trump] has set a very aggressive agenda, and I think that repealing and replacing Obamacare with the kind of health care reform that'll lower the cost of health insurance without growing the size of government will be job one.” ThinkingKindGovernmentCareJobsPresidentGrowingTrumpCostSizeReformHealth CareAgendasAggressiveObamacareHealth Care ReformRepealingSize Of Government Author:Mike Pence
“I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent the time on Obamacare, which had real benefits, 20 million insured, but not on inequality, was a major cost to the Democratic Party, costing them their majorities, but also a bit of a cost to the country, because it didn't address the fundamental issues that led to Donald Trump and that led to a lot of unhappiness, just the continued widening inequality.” ThinkingRealCountryHouseBitsWhiteViewsPartyMillionsIssuesTrumpCostBenefitsMajorsFundamentalsMajorityDemocraticCongressPoint Of ViewInequalityAddressesUnhappinessWhite HouseProgressiveDemocratic PartyObamacare Author:David Brooks
“The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.” PeopleYearsHas BeensFactsCareMillionsProgressCostRateSavingHealth CareFundLowestSavingsObamacareAffordableUndoneMedicareAffordable Care ActHealth Care CostsTrust Funds Author:Barack Obama
“There's a reason people are not going to Obamacare. They find out what it's gonna cost 'em, and they go somewhere else. And in the process, they're undermining the very foundation of Obamacare, all of which was predictable.” PeopleReasonProcessCostFoundationEmsSomewhere ElsePredictableObamacareUndermining Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.” KnowsMenMeanIdeasBigsCostSittingMen And WomenEdgesNo IdeaSmall BusinessObamacareBig BusinessBusiness Man Author:Rick Perry
“And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.” MeanJobsAmericaGrowthHurtCostTaxesChampionEnginesHealthcareRegulationSmall BusinessFifthReducingObamacareReinsJob GrowthRepealing Author:Mitt Romney