October 4, 2016 | No Comments
Hillary Clinton sought to clean up after her husband who on Monday night referred to Obamacare, President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement, as a “crazy system.”
“I think he made it clear what he was saying,” Clinton told reporters during a press conference on Tuesday in Pennsylvania, when asked about her husband’s remarks. “With respect to the Affordable Care Act, I’ve been saying that we need to fix what’s broken and keep what works.”
On Monday the former president said that it was crazy that the Affordable Care Act has not done enough to get more middle-class Americans affordable health-care coverage.
“The people who are getting killed on this deal are small business people and individuals who make just a little too much to get any of these subsidies because they’re not organized,” Clinton said Monday night. “They don’t have any bargaining power with insurance companies so they’re getting whacked.”
Those people are getting killed, Clinton continued, having ended up with much higher premiums than many others.
“So you’ve got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have health care and then the people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half. It’s the craziest thing in the world.”
Both Obama and his allies have previously chafed at those in their party who go after the law. In an interview with New York magazine, Obama sought to remind critics that even members of his own party complicated efforts to pursue reform.
During the primary it was Hillary Clinton herself who seized this mantle, seeking to cast Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-All plan as naive. She usually added that the famously independent senator refused to admit just how much progress has occurred under Obamacare.