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QUIZ: How well do you know the health care debate?

By Megha Satyanarayana May 4, 2017

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The debate over health care has been long — and full of memorable soundbites. With a possible vote Thursday on health care reform, we’ve collected eight quotes of note for our latest quiz. Think you know who said them? And why? Go for it:

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“I have access to buying a $10 million home. I don’t have the money to do that.” — Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said this to whom about having access to insurance?*

"Preexisting conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it. I said, 'Has to be.'" — Who said this?*

"I made it explicitly clear to everyone that I talked to that I was acting as an individual member of Congress. ... I never said I was negotiating for anyone else and I respect all of our members of Congress." — New Jersey Representative Tom MacArthur said this about what?*

"A little over six years ago, I lived in a pretty decent house. And one day I heard a knock on the door. And before I knew it, my colleagues from the other side of the aisle had let a _______ loose in my house. Now for six years, that _______ has been messin’ in and destroying my house." — Georgia Representative Drew Ferguson said this about repealing the Affordable Care Act. What was let loose in his house?*

"I spent two years trying to create stability and predictability for the market — and we did. But markets are only as good as people's belief in them." — Former CMS chief Andy Slavitt said this about what?*

“Just like Jesus said, ‘The poor will always be with us.’ There is a group of people that just don’t want health care and aren’t going to take care of themselves.” — Kansas Representative Roger Marshall said this about people on what program that could be affected by AHCA?*

“Instead of paying a tax penalty, you would pay a penalty in terms of not being able to get coverage when you next try to come back in. But people lose health insurance for lots of reasons that make it difficult for people to immediately get coverage back.” — Karen Pollitz, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, is talking about what idea?*
"How do you have an increase with those kinds of numbers? For some of these folks, I don’t see how they’ll be able to afford insurance." — David Certner, legislative counsel for AARP, said this about what phenomenon connecting age and policy price slated to change under AHCA?*

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