by brent griffiths 11/01/16 06:28 pm edt bill clinton on tuesday tangled with a heckler at a florida rally who threw back at the former president the remarks he made in october that obamacare was the "craziest thing in the world." clinton, who has at times gotten heated on the campaign trail, especially bristled at the suggestion that he would support repealing president barack obama's signature health care law. story continued below "what are you asking?" a visibly irritated clinton responded to the questioner at a rally in immokalee, florida. "that is not at all what i said. oh really? go read it. go read it. and don't read it on the internet, don't read it on the internet, get the whole thing. first, i campaigned hard for that law. second, i risked losing the congress to pass universal health care. thirdly, i defended president obama in 2010 and 2012 and he went up 5 points in the polls after i defended what he did with health care." clinton was not done, though, as he said what is actually crazy are those who do not qualify for subsidies under the law, along with republicans who continue to try to undermine the reforms at the state level. 2016 by shane goldmacher and annie karni "we shouldn't be in denial, the president said the same thing," clinton said. "i didn't say a thing that the president hadn't already said, or that the health care people in his administration hadn't already said in his administration." clinton landed in hot water when he delivered some off-the-cuff remarks last month in which he slammed parts of obamacare. <u+201c>so you've got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have health care 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. it's the craziest thing in the world," the former president said at the time. donald trump immediately seized on the comments, holding them up as proof that even prominent democrats think obamacare is doomed <u+2014> something clinton later denied. <u+201c>president bill clinton came out and told the truth about obamacare,<u+201d> trump said. <u+201c>he<u+2019>s absolutely trashed president obama<u+2019>s signature legislation. remember, hillary clinton called obamacare one of the greatest accomplishments of president obama, of the democratic party and of our country. give me a break.<u+201d> by bill scher by joshua zeitz by thomas wright by jack shafer
bill clinton spars with heckler over obamacare - politico
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