After the Supreme Court announced its decision on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Mitt Romney had a solution of his own: To repeal Obamacare, we must replace Obama.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee said during a news conference in Washington D.C. today that he disagreed with the Supreme Court ruling and vowed that, "what the Court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected president of the United States. And that is I will act to repeal Obamacare."
"Let's make clear that we understand what the Court did and did not do," he said. "What the Court did today was say that Obamacare does not violate the Constitution. What they did not do was say that Obamacare is good law or that it's good policy. Obamacare was bad policy yesterday. It's bad policy today. Obamacare was bad law yesterday. It's bad law today."
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