"The value I bring to this is that access to healthcare should be a right and not just a privilege of those who can afford it. The plan has to be to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, not get rid of it."
"I absolutely support [Sen. Sanders' 'Medicare For All' bill], and over the last four years, as vice president, I have supported private healthcare options. But what we need to do is maintain and grow the Affordable Care Act."
"When Donald Trump was president, 60 times he tried to get rid of the Affordable Care Act—60 times. I was a senator at the time. I will never forget the early morning hours when it was up for a vote in the United States Senate and the late, great John McCain … walked onto the Senate floor and said, 'No, you don't. No, you don't. No, you don't get rid of the Affordable Care Act.'"

Trump said:

"[The ACA is] still never going to be great. And it's too expensive for people. … If we can come up with a plan that's going to cost our people, our population, less money and be better healthcare than Obamacare, then I would absolutely do it. But until then, I'd run it as good as it can be run."
"I would only change it if we come up with something better and less expensive. And there are concepts and options we have to do that. And you'll be hearing about it in the not-too-distant future."
"But remember this: I inherited Obamacare because Democrats wouldn't change it. They were unanimous. They wouldn't vote to change it. If they would have done that, we would have had a much better plan than Obamacare."

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