The bill, even if passed in the House, is expected to be vetoed by President Barack Obama. Nonetheless, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton acknowledged Monday at a speech in Davenport, Iowa that the move is symbolic of what can happen if a Republican takes the White House.
“If there’s a Republican sitting there, it will be repealed and then we will have to start all over again,” she said, according to The Hill. “I don’t think the stakes could be higher.” She denounced Republicans for trying to take away what was gained for millions of Americans under the ACA, according to the report.
“With this vote,” Drew Hammill, spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), said, “Republicans have once again exposed the cruel hollowness of their 2016 agenda,” according to The Hill.
Conservatives are fired up as well. Heritage Action for America, a conservative policy advocacy organization, wrote a letter Tuesday to Republican presidential candidates commanding an “ironclad commitment” from the party to discontinue regulation of the insurance market and fully repeal the ACA because of its costs, according to The New York Times.
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