Donald Trump’s campaign has pounced on an opportunity to mock Hillary Clinton for supporting Obamacare after her husband described the president’s signature healthcare legislation as the “craziest thing in the world” during a campaign stop on Monday.
“With premiums continuing to skyrocket, state insurance markets collapsing and businesses struggling to comply with its job-killing mandates, even Democrats like Bill Clinton are coming to realize just what bad public policy Obamacare really is,” Trump’s senior communications adviser, Jason Miller, said in a statement released by the campaign.
Miller continued, “Unfortunately for the millions of Americans struggling with higher healthcare costs, all Hillary Clinton is proposing to do is double down on this failed law and reheat unrealistic proposals that were too liberal to pass when Democrats held a filibuster-proof Senate majority.”
Former President Bill Clinton took a hammer to the healthcare program while speaking to supporters of his wife at a campaign rally in Flint, Mich.
“You’ve got this crazy system where all the sudden 25 million more people have healthcare and then the people [who] are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half,” Clinton had said.
Meanwhile, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has stood by Obama’s healthcare law and pledged to expand mandatory healthcare spending by $40 billion over the next decade if she’s elected president.
“You know, before it was called Obamacare it was called Hillarycare,” the former secretary of state told supporters in February during a campaign rally in Elko, Nev.
