Elissa Slotkin Quotes

I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.

We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.

Remember what Obamacare gave you. Obamacare gave you insurance but not health care. A lot of folks who were technically insured either couldn't afford the premiums or couldn't afford the copay.

When I hear about Mainers rationing their medication or losing their life-savings despite being insured, I know our health care system requires major reform.

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

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 know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.

Millions of Americans who are not poor are health care poor.

Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly.

I know how critical it is to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions have affordable insurance, and states are able to do that.

For all the banging from the Left that, you know, 'They don't care about people with pre-existing conditions' - There was never a day where our conference was willing to leave people out in the cold.

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

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

I say we need to repeal Obamacare as fast as we can.

I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

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

Too many Americans who are uninsured or under-insured do not receive regular checkups because they can't afford coverage or their insurance doesn't cover enough of the costs. The lack of preventive care results in countless emergency room visits and health care disasters for families.

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.

Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare.

Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.

But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

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