02/23/2016
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"Fifty million people couldn't get health insurance. Health care costs were increasing so rapidly. We needed to do something."
"I will remind you that the Congressional Budget Office has estimated the Affordable Care Act will reduce the deficit by $124 billion by 2019 and further cuts the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the second..."
"I am very proud that the Affordable Care Act will control health care spending by making important delivery system changes that reward quality, not quantity of care."
"We are supposed to be trying to turn the economy around and create jobs."