Obama Blasts ‘Aggravating’ ObamaCare Repeal Efforts: Our Leaders Are Trying to Inflict ‘Real Human Suffering’

‘Now, the legislation that we passed was full of things that still need to be fixed. It wasn’t perfect, but it was better’

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Obama Blasts ‘Aggravating’ Obamacare Repeal Efforts: Our Leaders Are Trying to Inflict ‘Real Human Suffering’ (The Washington Free Beacon)

Former President Barack Obama ripped into current Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare on Wednesday, calling it "aggravating" to have to mobilize constantly to stop "real human suffering" being inflicted on Americans.

Sens. Bill Cassidy (R., La.) and Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) are pushing an Obamacare repeal bill which President Donald Trump said he would sign, although its passage is far from a done deal.

Obama spoke at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's "Goalkeepers" event and never mentioned Trump and Republicans by name, but he touted the efforts of both politicians and citizens to pass the Affordable Care Act, saying people were alive today because of it.

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