"What we tried to do was do it all in the House bill with repeal and replace….That would have been the biggest entitlement reform bill ever passed by Congress. So what are we doing? We're going back and doing it incrementally. Going back at incremental health-care reform and other entitlement reforms so we can chip away at this problem."
— Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI)
July 2 2018
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"I just think this was such a lost opportunity, And I cannot believe that we have reached the point in Washington where partisan politics, and everyone looking at who's going to lose or gain in the November election, poisoned a chance and prevented us from really helping people. That's the lesson that I took from this."
—Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine)
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"It’s Obamacare’s birthday. After eight years of relentless pounding, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is still the law of the land. Its resilience reflects the fundamental decency of the American people who — when faced with the reality of taking coverage away from millions of their neighbors — refused to let that happen. They filled town hall meetings, they flooded the corridors of Congress, and support for the law surged to its current 54 percent. That is not to say that the law’s future is assured."
— David Blumenthal, M.D., The Commonwealth Fund
— David Blumenthal, M.D., The Commonwealth Fund