article_snippet: President Barack Obama challenged Republicans who oppose Obamacare to come up with an alternative at an event today celebrating the fifth anniversary of the law.
article_snippet: President Barack Obama challenged Republicans who oppose Obamacare to come up with an alternative at an event today celebrating the fifth anniversary of the law.
article_snippet: Well, there was a presidential candidate who ran in 2012 promising to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and that campaign pledge didn’t work out very well for a presidential candidate who ran in 2012 promising to repeal the Affordable Care Act,' Obama's spokesman, Josh Earnest, told reporters, referring to that year's Republican nominee for president, Mitt Romney.
article_snippet: Defending the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare after the Affordable Care Act biggest backer, the president, Obama said, 'the Affordable Care Act’s not the “job-killer” that critics have warned about for five years.'
article_snippet: Obama said the reason that Republicans are having such a difficult time coming up with an alternative to Obama plan to reform the healthcare system is because the healthcare system was 'pretty much was Republicans plan before I adopted it.'
article_snippet: Repeating past claims, Obama said the ACA is 'based on conservative, market-based principles developed by the Heritage Foundation and supported by Republicans in Congress, and deployed by a guy named Mitt Romney in Massachusetts to great effect. '