Make no mistake, Hillary Clinton loves PPACA

“I think we are on the right track in many respects but I would be the first to say if things aren’t working then we need people of good faith to come together and make evidence-based changes,” Clinton said at a healthcare event in Orlando, Fla., last June. Ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, Clinton had urged Democratic candidates to run on Obamacare’s successes, rather than let Republicans control the narrative of what they portrayed as a failed law.

“On a very personal, self-interested basis, you should have health insurance to protect yourself and your families from unpredictable costs that none of us know will be striking whenever,” she said. “You can’t sit here today and tell me for sure you won’t have a car accident, you won’t have a slip or a fall, you won’t have some kind of disease that you never thought you’d ever be stricken by.”

But Clinton has also signaled that she might be open to amending the law, specifically targeting the medical device tax.

“On the tax itself, again, I think we have to look to see what are the pluses and minuses that are embodied in a decision about either to remove or alter or continue this particular piece of the Affordable Care Act,” Clinton told a Chicago conference of medical device makers in October.