Republicans Aren't Moving On From Obamacare

Republicans Aren't Moving On From Obamacare

The Republican National Committee sent a message to President Barack Obama Friday: the GOP is not moving on from Obamacare.

The Republicans' message came in the form of a web video, posted one day after the president announced 8 million people had signed up for private health insurance using the exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act. During the announcement, Obama said it was time for Republicans "to move on to something else," and chastised states that chose not to expand Medicaid "for no other reason than political spite" against him.

"You have 5 million people who could be having health insurance right now at no cost to these states, zero cost to these states, other than ideological reasons, they have chosen not to provide health insurance for their citizens," Obama said during a press conference Thursday. "That's wrong. It should stop. Those folks should be able to get health insurance like everybody else."

Republicans argued that "Americans don't think it's time to move on" in the video. Some prominent Republicans personally promised to keep up the fight against Obamacare, with House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) saying "Republicans cannot and will not accept this law." The office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) also released a statement, according to NBC:

If the president is so confident in his numbers, there is no reason not to release transparent and complete enrollment data, and answer the questions, how many enrollees were previously uninsured and how many people had lost their previous plans due to Obamacare.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) -- who led the charge in 2013 to tie funding for Obamacare to a continuing resolution to the fund the government, a strategy that ultimately shut down the government for 16 days, cost $2 billion in lost productivity and made no changes to the health care law -- tweeted the following after Obama's remarks Thursday:

Watch the RNC's web video above.

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