"We can't support this, and you need our votes in order to do it."
"We're here today because Republicans stopped Waxman-Markey. That's why we're here."
"We have insured now more than 500,000 people under the Affordable Care Act through our exchange and expansion of Medicaid."
"Deloitte came back and said that over the next 5 years, the Affordable Care Act would create 40,000 new jobs in Kentucky."
"I appreciate your holding this hearing. I think as has been demonstrated, both sides are very much interested in rooting out all the waste, fraud, and abuse that exists in the Medicare system."
"I want to take this opportunity as I often do to talk about the experience in Kentucky with the Affordable Care Act."
"We have more than a half-million people who are newly enrolled in Medicaid and in private insurance as a result of the ACA."
"We have reduced the uninsured rate by almost 50 percent in Kentucky."
"Under ACA, Kentucky would experience added economic activity of $30 billion, the creation of 40,000 new jobs."
"There is a related issue when we talk waste as well, and I wanted to talk about prescription drug costs."
"Under the expansion of Medicaid, more than 520,000 Kentuckians now have insurance who didn't have it before."
"The ACA, the uninsured rate across the state has been reduced by almost half."