Obama: ObamaCare Is ‘Least Disruptive’ Path Away From Current System

OBAMA: "If the health care system had been working fine and everybody had high-quality health insurance at affordable prices, I wouldn't have made it a priority. We wouldn't have been fighting this hard to get it done, which is why when I see sometimes folks up on Capitol Hill -- and Republicans in particular -- who have been suggesting 'repeal, repeal, lets get rid of this thing,' I keep on asking, 'What is it you want to do. Are you suggesting the status quo was working?' It wasn't. Everybody knows it. It wasn't working in the individual market and it certainly wasn't working for the 41 million people who didn't have health insurance. So what we did was we chose a path that was the least disruptive to try to finally make sure that health care is treated in this country like it is in every other advanced country, that it's not some privilege that just a certain portion of people can have but someone everybody has some confidence about. We didn't go far left and choose an approach that would have been much more disruptive. We didn't adopt some more conservative proposals that would have been much more disruptive. We tried to choose a way that built off the existing system. It is complicated. It is hard. I make no apologies for us taking this on. Somebody sooner or later had to do it. I do make apologies over not executing better over the last several months."