"Simply put, if there’s a chance you might get sick, get old, or start a family—this bill will do you harm. And small tweaks over the course of the next couple weeks, under the guise of making these bills easier to stomach, cannot change the fundamental meanness at the core of this legislation."
— Former President Barack Obama
“We don’t have the courage in Washington, the honesty, to talk about this issue with real facts. There’s no way we should be voting on [the bill] this next week, no way."
—Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI)