Michael Martincic had a message for U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan regarding the Affordable Care Act during the Wisconsin congressman's town hall meeting in Racine on Wednesday.

"ACA subsidies are a good thing,” the 64-year-old Oak Creek roofer told Ryan.

(Think Progress has a story and video of the encounter here.)

Martincic said he could reduce his monthly health care payments from $700 to about $200 under the ACA, also known as Obamacare. He got cheers when he told Ryan he knows other people who have benefited from the health care law, including a friend with leukemia who cut his out-of-pocket expenses in half by purchasing insurance on Healthcare.gov.

Martincic was critical of Republicans' repreated attempts to repeal Obamacare, prompting a defense from Ryan, who maintained that the GOP only wanted to repeal "many pieces" of the law.

Ryan also took heat over his comments on unemployed "inner city" men earlier this month, first reported by Think Progress.