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I know how critical it is to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions have affordable insurance, and states are able to do that.

People don't want to be told what type of insurance they have to have.

Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions.

Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. That's what change looks like.

Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

People won't buy insurance until they're sick. If you can call on your way to the hospital and get coverage, it's not really insurance at that point.

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs.

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them - making the chances of having health insurance as a senior the same as getting tails on a coin flip.