Ben Sasse Quotes

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.

Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

This Obamacare program has Obama's name on it. He lied to people for three years about this program. People trusted him. People believed what he told them. They believed that he was going to improve the health care system in this country, and it was going to get cheaper, more affordable, more plentiful.

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

If we Republicans celebrate that we have repealed Obamacare, and health insurance premiums keep going up, the voters will tar and feather us, and rightly so.

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.

Efforts to repeal Obamacare are misguided, dangerous, and just another instance of Republicans fighting the political wars of years past. But, health care shouldn't be about politics; it must be about helping people lead healthier lives.

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.

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.

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

When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.

I don't think it's any secret I've never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

Hillary Clinton's radical attempts at so-called reform of the nation's health care system would have been more destructive than even Obamacare has been.

The American people want change. They don't want the same old health care system that's not affordable, that doesn't offer coverage to everybody, that keeps escalating in cost. And what we've seen from the Republicans is, really, a desire to have the status quo.

We need to make every effort to ensure Obamacare is never implemented.

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.

Sometimes it seems President Obama lives in a parallel universe where facts are floating around to be plucked out of suspended animation. Never more so than on the effects of the Affordable Care Act.

One of the major problems with Obamacare - and another reason it needs to be entirely repealed - is that it prevents Montanans from developing our own, better health care system.

The heartaches of Obamacare don't have to be the norm.

The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.

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

When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.

Republicans should embrace the possibility that Obamacare could pave the way toward lower health care entitlement spending overall. That won't be easy. But it's not unthinkable, either.