Clinton: ObamaCare Criticism Had Nothing to Do With Hillary’s Future

‘I was trying to be supportive of him’

LOPEZ: “Are you doing that -- is it because you are setting the way for Mrs. Clinton to run? And second, are the problems with ObamaCare limited to the website?”
CLINTON: “The answer to the first question is, no. First of all, I said nothing about this. Not one word until the president himself spoke. And it was obvious to me, listening to him, that he wanted the American people to feel that he had kept his commitment. And that they didn't understand that he, in fact, did grandfather in, that is protect, all the policies that were in existence on the day he signed the health care bill. That was done. But most -- he didn't take over the insurance industry in America. So for example, today, less than 20 percent of those 11 million policies, which exist in the individual insurance market, even existed when President Obama had signed the bill. So I was trying to be supportive of him. I don't think you can find anybody in America who's worked harder for his re-election, or supported this bill or, went out of his way to explain the bill to the American people more than I did.”

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