Bill Cassidy Quotes

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.

Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

Thanks to President Barack Obama, under the Affordable Care Act, millions more people will be eligible for health insurance, including many people with HIV.

Since Obamacare was enacted, affordable, individualized health care coverage choices have all but disappeared for many Americans.

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

If you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan, period.

We need to make sure pre-existing conditions are taken care of, but propping up Obamacare, a failing system, is not the way to do it.

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.

Rauner needs to tell Illinoisans what essential health benefits he intends to keep covering in Illinois.

I think we've got a pretty good track record of definitively opposing Obamacare in the state of North Carolina.

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.

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.

Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions.

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.

I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

You can't say it's broken, but let's keep some of Obamacare. You have to start over.

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.

Unfortunately, the health care bill commonly referred to as ObamaCare is making it more difficult for employers to provide insurance to their employees. It limits individuals' ability to pick their own doctors and, over time, decreases the quality of care we provide in this country.

I'm committed to voting to repeal Obamacare or defending it as much as possible.

Democrats stand ready and willing to work with President Trump to improve upon the ACA - but we will not sit by and watch him sabotage the health care of millions of Americans.

Before Obamacare, only 12% of individual insurance plans covered maternity plans. Even without that important benefit, women were charged up to 48% more than men for the same benefit package.

Florida is not going to implement Obamacare. We are not going to expand Medicaid, and we're not going to implement exchanges.

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

Obamacare is simply not sustainable.