"it's clear from what i said that there are problems with it," clinton said. "that's not his fault; he tried to get the public option." | ap photo by nancy cook 10/05/16 02:09 pm edt bill clinton on wednesday acknowledged problems with obamacare as he pivoted to attack republicans for promising to scrap a law that<u+2019>s covered 20 million people. "their idea of solving a problem is to take 20 million people who have insurance and take it away," clinton said at a voter registration breakfast in ohio. story continued below it marked the third straight day he tried to clarify remarks about the middle class<u+2019>s struggle to afford obamacare coverage. republican have seized on clinton<u+2019>s comments as proof that the health care law they<u+2019>ve strongly opposed for more than six years is broken. on tuesday, the former president had clarified that he<u+2019>s a supporter of the affordable care act. on wednesday, he said his comments were meant to highlight hillary clinton<u+2019>s plans for improving the health care law <u+2013> and weren<u+2019>t a criticism of president barack obama. "it's clear from what i said that there are problems with it," clinton said. "that's not his fault; he tried to get the public option." hillary clinton<u+2019>s plans to build on obamacare include support for a public option, a government-run insurance alternative to private companies. the idea favored by liberals was considered during the drafting of obamacare but didn<u+2019>t garner enough support. by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
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