--- title: AHCA: Hillary Clinton Calls Health Bill Failure a 'Victory' description: "It's a victory for anyone who believes affordable health care is a human right," Hillary Clinton said after the bill failed canonical: https://time.com/4713081/hillary-clinton-ahca-health-care-bill-failure/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-24T21:48:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T10:20:25.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton on GOP Health Care Bill Failure: 'Today Was a Victory' og:description: "It's a victory for anyone who believes affordable health care is a human right" og:url: https://time.com/4713081/hillary-clinton-ahca-health-care-bill-failure/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc1126621d1b652b/6988bfe4f887dcfc20e99939/hrc-health-care-reax.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton Speaks At Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards At The Kennedy Center In Washington, DC og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton on GOP Health Care Bill Failure: 'Today Was a Victory' twitter:description: "It's a victory for anyone who believes affordable health care is a human right" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc1126621d1b652b/6988bfe4f887dcfc20e99939/hrc-health-care-reax.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton on GOP Health Care Bill Failure: 'Today Was a Victory'  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 10:20 AM UTCPublished: Mar 24, 2017 9:48 PM UTC  Former Presidential candidate and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards at the The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 8, 2017 in Washington, DC. Former Presidential candidate and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards at the The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 8, 2017 in Washington, DC.Justin Sullivan—Getty Images  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 10:20 AM UTCPublished: Mar 24, 2017 9:48 PM UTC Former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate [Hillary Clinton](http://motto.time.com/4712239/hillary-clinton-whiskey-rodham-rye/) called the House Republicans’ [failure](http://time.com/4712883/ahca-paul-ryan-donald-trump-no-vote-obamacare/) to repeal and replace [Obamacare](http://time.com/4712725/ahca-house-repeal-votes-obamacare/) Friday a victory for the millions people she said would have become uninsured if the bill had passed. “Today was a victory for the 24, 000, 000, people at risk of losing their health insurance, for senior, for families battling the quiet epidemic of addiction, for new moms and women everywhere,” she wrote in a statement posted on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/845385004389666816). “Most of all it’s a victory for anyone who believes affordable health care is a human right.” House Republicans withdrew the bill from a floor vote after they did not have support to pass it. > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/845385004389666816) Clinton subsequently began tweeting stories of people who she says would have been adversely affected by the passage of the bill. > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/845385238628982784) She also credited constituents for fighting against the proposed legislation. “This victory happened because people in every corner of our country committed their time and energy to calling their representatives, showing up at town hall meetings, and making their voices heard,” she wrote. “We are reminded today that there is no substitute for standing up and defending our values.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4713081/hillary-clinton-ahca-health-care-bill-failure/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4713081/hillary-clinton-ahca-health-care-bill-failure/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton on GOP Health Care Bill Failure: 'Today Was a Victory'","datePublished":"2017-03-24T21:48:00.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T10:20:25.000Z","description":"\"It's a victory for anyone who believes affordable health care is a human right\"","url":"https://time.com/4713081/hillary-clinton-ahca-health-care-bill-failure/","keywords":["Health Care","Hillary Clinton","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc1126621d1b652b/6988bfe4f887dcfc20e99939/hrc-health-care-reax.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alana Abramson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc1126621d1b652b/6988bfe4f887dcfc20e99939/hrc-health-care-reax.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton Speaks At Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards At The Kennedy Center In Washington, DC","caption":"Hillary Clinton Speaks At Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards At The Kennedy Center In Washington, DC","creditText":"Justin Sullivan—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/health-care/","name":"Health Care"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4713081/hillary-clinton-ahca-health-care-bill-failure/","name":"Hillary Clinton on GOP Health Care Bill Failure: 'Today Was a Victory'"}}]}] ```