--- title: Donald Trump Wants to Hear Your Problems with Obamacare description: After the President held a meeting with what the White House deemed "victims" of Obamacare, he is asking more Americans to come forward. canonical: https://time.com/4700456/donald-trump-healthcare-obamacare-complaints/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-14T00:22:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-07T07:20:24.865Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump Wants to Hear Your Obamacare Complaints og:description: The president invited Americans to submit grievances about Obamacare on the White House website og:url: https://time.com/4700456/donald-trump-healthcare-obamacare-complaints/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa6e47964a8d7e91/6988be368e060141ac46989c/trump-healthcare-constituentmeeting.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5184 og:image:height: 2916 og:image:alt: President Trump Holds Meeting On Healthcare og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Wants to Hear Your Obamacare Complaints twitter:description: The president invited Americans to submit grievances about Obamacare on the White House website twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa6e47964a8d7e91/6988be368e060141ac46989c/trump-healthcare-constituentmeeting.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Wants to Hear Your Obamacare Complaints > Sponsored content. 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President Trump said Republicans are putting themselves in a "very bad position" by repealing the Affordable Care Act_  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Mar 14, 2017 12:22 AM UTC President Trump said Republicans are putting themselves in a "very bad position" by repealing the Affordable Care Act  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Mar 14, 2017 12:22 AM UTC If you feel [Obamacare](http://time.com/4699818/obamacare-repeal-donald-trump-listening-session/) has let you down, [the White House](http://time.com/4700311/donald-trump-white-house-counsel-steve-bannon/) wants to hear from you. [President Trump](http://time.com/4700234/president-donald-trump-cabinet-meeting/) held a meeting on Monday with what the White House called “victims of Obamacare” — businesses and individuals it said was negatively impacted by the law. Those in attendance, per descriptions on the White House website, cited Obamacare as the reason for increasing health care costs. Those not at the meeting who still have grievances about Obamacare are invited to share their stories with on the White House [website](https://www.whitehouse.gov/obamacare-share-your-story). The meeting and call for more stories came the same day the Congressional Budget Office released their assessment of the GOP health care bill, which the President has backed, estimating that it would [result](http://time.com/4700200/donald-trump-cbo-healthcare-obamare/) in 24 million losing health insurance, but would cut the federal deficit by $337 million. Although many in attendance at the White House complained about rising costs, including premiums, the CBO report claims that average premiums under the GOP bill would initially increase by 15 to 20% in 2018 and 2019\. Although the costs would start to recede in 2020, and would ultimately decrease 10% by 2026, they would continue to rise for older Americans. ## Transcript And the Republicans, frankly, are putting themselves in a very bad position, and I tell this to Tom Price all the time, by repealing Obamacare, because people aren't gonna see the truly devastating effects of Obamacare, they're not gonna see the devastation in 17 and 18 and 19, it'll be gone by then, it'll Whether we do it or not, it'll be imploded off the map. So the press is making it look so wonderful, so that if we end it everyone's gonna say remember how great Obamacare used to be? Remember how wonderful it used to be, it was so great. It's a little bit like President Obama What he left people like him. When he was here people didn't like him so much that's the way life goes. 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