Wasserman Schultz: Future Dems will run on Obamacare

Obamacare didn’t harm Democrats in last week’s elections and, in fact, could be a boon to future candidates, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee said Sunday.

“I think actually that Democrats will be able to run on Obamacare as an advantage,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Despite recent issues with the Obamacare rollout and the website, she said Americans are starting to see the benefits of the new health plan.

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"The president himself said that to the extent that his commitment - and our commitment - that if you like your health plan you can keep it is not possible for what is actually less than 5 percent of the folks on the individual market, we are going to work toward making sure they can do that," she said. "What we're not going to do is we're not going to allow the Republicans embracing the idea that we should stop people from being able to get access to quality, affordable health care, we're not going to let new plans be sold like the Upton bill would do, to allow insurance companies to drop them."

Competing plans are the wrong approach, but instead working out Obamacare's details should be the focus, she said. "We're not going backwards."