"This is simply not sustainable for my home state, or any other."
"CBO, however, projects that the real cost of the coverage expansions will be $229 billion in 2020 and $245 billion in 2021."
"Yet, as Mr. Elmendorf told the House Budget Committee last month, he expects the law will cost 800,000 jobs by 2021."
"The true cost of Obamacare is worse than what any of us expected--higher premiums, more federal health spending, fewer jobs."
"CBO's estimate of total spending on coverage expansions in PPACA grew from $938 billion last March to $1.445 trillion."
"If the intent of reforming the health care system was indeed to bend the cost curve, then it looks like mission accomplished. Unfortunately, we bent it in the wrong direction."
"If my friends on the other side of the aisle want to create jobs, why repeal the Affordable Care Act, which will add 400,000 jobs a year for the next 10 years?"
"American families need help now. They need protection from insurance companies dropping their coverage, they need help in providing health coverage for their college students, and they need help to af..."
"Medicare also has potentially 10 to 20 percent of its receipts going out in fraud, so maybe there is something to be said for overhead."
"The real threat to job creation is the threat of repealing this law and going back to a system that stacks the deck against me."
"the Republican's first priority, H.R. 1, I am not saying this, but outside groups are saying, is cutting 700,000 American jobs."
"the second priority, H.R. 2, repealing the American people's access to some kind of health care and the same type of health care that Members of Congress receive and adding $230 billion to our deficit..."