Yahoo – AFP,
March 23, 2017
Washington (AFP) - Former president Barack Obama warned Thursday against approving a Republican bill that would repeal his signature health care reform law unless the measure improves coverage for Americans.
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| People protest Trump administration policies that threaten the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid in January 2017 in Los Angeles, California (AFP Photo/DAVID MCNEW) |
Washington (AFP) - Former president Barack Obama warned Thursday against approving a Republican bill that would repeal his signature health care reform law unless the measure improves coverage for Americans.
"We
should start from the baseline that any changes will make our health care
system better, not worse for hardworking Americans. That should always be our
priority," Obama said in a statement on the seventh anniversary of his
signing "Obamacare" into law.
Obama
weighed in on the big debate of the day in Washington as the House of
Republicans prepared for a high-stakes, too-close-to-call vote on a new health
care plan backed by President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly dismissed
Obamacare as disastrous.
But in
doing away with the Obama law, the Trump plan would cause an estimated 14
million people to lose their health care insurance by next year, according to
an assessment by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
President Donald Trump faces a reckoning Thursday as US lawmakers vote on the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare pic.twitter.com/V0LISusIlD— AFP news agency (@AFP) March 23, 2017
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