"I would be dead without Medicaid."
"Childhood trauma is a pervasive public health issue with long-term negative health effects that costs the United States billions of dollars."
"I guarantee you there is somebody."
"And so you got almost the blind leading the blind. They are not only leading them, they are leading them in the wrong direction."
"I have often said that voting for the Affordable Care Act was the most important vote of my career."
"Life is short. I do not waste people's time, and I damn sure don't waste mine."
"if the ACA is struck down, 20 million people in America will lose health insurance coverage, period."
"it is wrong to say that the ACA is the cause of high insurance premiums."
"As a Nation, we have got to get a handle on healthcare costs, but to blame the ACA for out-of-control healthcare costs is like a drowning man blaming a life preserver for getting him wet."
"The public does not want the ACA to be overturned. For well over a year, a majority of Americans support the law."
"Partisan attorneys general filed suit to say that without the mandate, the entire law should fail."
"Don't take away coverage from 20 million people. Don't return to the crisis, the health crisis, that we endured before the ACA."