Republican presidential candidates will do their best to tie Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama and the more unpopular parts of his presidency. Front and center is likely to be his signature legislative policy, the eponymous Obamacare, as it has been for the last three election cycles.Hillary wants to pick what hospital you go to.
But Obama's former secretary of State doesn't seem too worried about it—quite the opposite, in fact. Clinton has been openly enthusiastic about the law in the weeks leading up to her announcement.
She singled out the congressional Republican budget's repeal of Obamacare for criticism in March 17 comments on Twitter, Clinton's preferred venue for official political statements these days.
"Our nation's future—jobs & economic growth—depends on investments made today. The GOP budget fails Americans on these principles," she wrote. "Repeal of the ACA would let insurers write their own rules again, and wipe out coverage for 16 million Americans."
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Seem All That Scared of Obamacare .The Democratic front-runner has been fairly unreserved in her support of the Affordable Care Act.
The National Journal reports: