Hillary Clinton visited Twitter headquarters in San Francisco Monday to participate in an interview during which she addressed Obamacare and expressed America’s duty to “fix” the universal health care law.
Asked to respond to a Twitter user who lost her health care plan and wondered what Clinton would do to prevent such loss of coverage, the former secretary of State admitted that President Obama’s universal health care law is far from perfect.
“I think that we have to fix the Affordable Care Act so that what you’ve described does not happen to you,” Clinton asserted.
Though she reminded her audience that Obamacare has made some strides — enabling individuals to get health care for the first time, allowing young people to stay on their parents’ plans until age 26 — there exist “continuing problems” that the government needs to address.
“I believe strongly that we should be looking at … necessary fixes to make sure that costs don’t rise to levels that can’t be afforded by mom and pop shops or by individuals or anybody else,” continued Clinton.
“I don’t know the circumstances about why you lost it,” she addressed the individual who posed the question via Twitter. “I don’t know whether it was an insurance company that stopped offering the insurance policy you had been relying on, I don’t know if it was because you went on the exchange and there were not affordable options, I don’t know the specifics. But I think you and everyone like you who wants health care and is finding problems with it, we’re going to have to come up with solutions for you.”
Though Clinton failed to offer up an specific “solutions” to the Obamacare mess, she did express her “confidence” in lawmakers to fix the law as long as they refrain from “engaging in a political rhetorical battle” about the Affordable Care Act.
