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Bill Clinton calls Obama health care law a "crazy system"

Bill Clinton calls Obama health care law a "crazy system"

Former President Bill Clinton criticized the Affordable Care Act at a campaign event Monday, saying the way President Obama's signature legislative accomplishment works in practice is "the craziest thing in the world.""You've got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have healthcare and then the people are out there busting it sometimes 60 hours a week wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half," he said in Flint, Mich. "It's the craziest thing in the world."Still, Clinton said repealing the Affordable Care Act—as Republican nominee Donald Trump wants to do—isn't the answer."We've got to figure out what to do now on healthcare.[Hillary Clinton's] opponent said, 'Oh, just repeal it all, the market will take care of it,'" he said.


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Bill Clinton slams ObamaCare: 'It's the craziest thing in the world'

Bill Clinton slams ObamaCare: 'It's the craziest thing in the world'

Former President Bill Clinton Bill ClintonPodesta: I wouldn't have used Bill Clinton's phrasing on ObamaCare Top Trump aide calls Kaine 'sexist' for interrupting moderator Gore to campaign for Clinton: report MORE steamrolled President Obama's signature healthcare law at a rally, calling it "the craziest thing in the world."Speaking Monday in Flint, Mich., Clinton blasted the core principles of ObamaCare as unworkable as he pitched a new system that would allow people to buy into Medicare or Medicaid."You've got this crazy system where all the sudden 25 million more people have healthcare and then the people are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half," Clinton said."It's the craziest thing in the world," he said.


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Bill Clinton goes way off message on ­ObamaCare

Bill Clinton goes way off message on ­ObamaCare

Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonVP debate sharpens lines of attack The best lines from the VP debate CNN poll: Pence won debate MORE and the White House struggled on Tuesday to explain Bill Clinton Bill ClintonPodesta: I wouldn't have used Bill Clinton's phrasing on ObamaCare Top Trump aide calls Kaine 'sexist' for interrupting moderator Gore to campaign for Clinton: report MORE's blistering critique of ­ObamaCare, which exposed divisions in the Democratic Party over the healthcare law.The former president's surprisingly strong criticism of Obama's signature achievement also gave Republicans free talking points ahead of the vice presidential debate.Clinton unloaded on the Affordable Care Act during a campaign rally Monday afternoon in Michigan, a state where premium hikes are expected to be around 17 percent this fall.


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Bill Clinton criticizes Obamacare, calls U.S. healthcare 'crazy'

Bill Clinton criticizes Obamacare, calls U.S. healthcare 'crazy'

Bill Clinton on Tuesday tried to walk back his criticism of Obamacare as the "craziest thing in the world" by saying it "did a world of good.The former president, stumping for his wife in Michigan on Monday, said President Obama's signature legislation was hurting middle-class families.He blamed Obamacare for flooding the market with new people looking for insurance who can't afford it, but aren't poor enough to receive the program's subsidies.