If Hillary Clinton is elected president, her first priority on health care is clear: defend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

"I am not going to let them rip away the progress we made, I am not going to let them tear up that law, kick 16 million people off health coverage and force this country to start the health care debate all over again," said the former First Lady and Secretary of State recently.

Indeed, during her unsuccessful campaign for president in 2008, Clinton was defending a key aspect of the current PPACA that even then-Sen. Barack Obama did not support at the time: the individual mandate.

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