U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, a vocal critic of the health care reforms proposed and eventually pulled back by House Republican leadership, said Monday that the bill would have gone down hard had it been brought up for a vote.

At a town hall meeting in Cedar Springs Monday, Amash said it wouldn't have just been members of the House Freedom Caucus opposing the health care plan that was not brought up for a vote last month -- he estimated anywhere between 50 and 80 Republicans would have voted no.

"It would have been really embarrassing," he said.

During the health care debates, Amash heavily criticized the plan pushed by President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, calling it "Obamacare 2.0." On Monday, he categorized it as a "political plan" so Republican leadership could tell the public that the Affordable Care Act was repealed and replaced.

"I don't think it's something we should rush - there's no reason to rush this thing," he said. "We want to make sure we get it right...they rushed through the process."

Amash is no fan of the Affordable Care Act -- during the town hall, he said he doesn't think it's the type of law that can be fixed -- but said the best fix to the country's health care situation would be bipartisan. He said he's continuing conversations with the administration and leadership to work towards a better solution for fixing what he sees as major problems in the health care system.

"Let's start over in a bipartisan way," he said. "We should have worked with Democrats from the very beginning. At the end of the day, you cannot pass legislation ... that affects so many people and not have it be bipartisan."

The event was Amash's sixth town hall in 2017 - he's held two in Grand Rapids, one in Battle Creek, one in Hastings and one in Ionia. Amash also has public in-district events planned in Byron Center and Pennfield Township later this week.

During Monday's town hall, Amash also solicited input from constituents on the issue of the missile strikes in Syria, noting that he believed the process taken by President Donald Trump "was not right."

Amash said Trump should have reached out to Congress for authorization on the strike so U.S. citizens could have some say in a situation that has the possibility of escalating into something more serious.

"I'm listening to every person's input is when it comes to war," he said. "You didn't have a say about it, and that's wrong."

"If the president intends to escalate the conflict then he does need to come back to congress request approval and live with the results," Amash later added.

Asked by a member of the audience about whether the U.S. should be in a "perpetual war in the Middle East," Amash said he believes it is right for the country to go after ISIS, but advocated for an update to a 2001 authorization for use of military force that "refocuses the mission" in terms of end goals, who the enemies are and how the U.S. is going to handle the threat.