Bill Walks It Back: I Strongly Support Obamacare

The Hill reports:

One day after his criticism of ObamaCare made headlines, Bill Clinton on Wednesday said he strongly supported President Obama’s signature healthcare law while acknowledging that problems still remain.

During a speech in Youngstown, Ohio, the former president sought to reverse his harsh critique of ObamaCare by touting that the law has provided 20 million Americans with health insurance. He also praised the law for helping individuals with pre-existing conditions to get coverage.

Nearing the end of his Wednesday speech, Clinton noted, “I haven’t talked about that, but I strongly supported that bill. And it’s given more than 20 million people insurance and it’s repealed the most insidious thing that affected millions of families: the pre-existing condition.”

Clinton slipped in that there are persisting issues with the law. “But there are problems with it,” he added. “There are problems with it and everybody knows it.”

He then slammed Republicans for wanting to repeal ObamaCare. “The Republicans want to repeal the law. Their idea of solving a problem is to take 20 million people who got insurance and take it away from them give it all back to insurance companies.”