--- title: AHCA: Hillary Clinton Says Bill Is a 'Shameful Failure' description: Hillary Clinton is not happy with the GOP health care bill. She told followers to 'fight back' against Republicans who voted for the bill canonical: https://time.com/4768216/health-care-bill-ahca-hillary-clinton-fight-back/ author: Abigail Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-04T23:06:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T10:56:16.039Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton: GOP Health Care Bill Is a 'Shameful Failure' og:description: She told followers to 'fight back' against Republicans who voted for the bill og:url: https://time.com/4768216/health-care-bill-ahca-hillary-clinton-fight-back/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a490db08b1d0ae1/6988cc140a4a2228e59ce0b4/hillary-clinton-trump-health-care-bill-democrats-republicans.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 2017 Gloria Awards: A Salute to Women of Vision Gala og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton: GOP Health Care Bill Is a 'Shameful Failure' twitter:description: She told followers to 'fight back' against Republicans who voted for the bill twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a490db08b1d0ae1/6988cc140a4a2228e59ce0b4/hillary-clinton-trump-health-care-bill-democrats-republicans.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton: Republican Health Care Bill Is a 'Shameful Failure of Policy and Morality' > Sponsored content. 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Daniel Zuchnik—FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams May 4, 2017 11:06 PM UTC Hillary Clinton is not happy with the [health care bill](http://time.com/4767856/health-care-vote-senate-republicans-mitch-mcconnell/?xid=homepage) House Republicans passed on Thursday. Just hours after the House voted, Clinton took to Twitter to slam the legislation that Republicans are touting as the fulfillment of a longtime promise to [repeal and replace Obamacare](http://time.com/4767335/health-care-vote-trumpcare-congress-house/). Clinton called the new bill, which could affect health coverage for millions of Americans, a “shameful failure of policy & morality” by the GOP. But she didn’t stop at criticism. She also called on voters to “fight back on behalf of the millions of families that will be hurt by their actions” and tweeted out a link to a page where people can donate to help Democratic candidates run against Republicans who voted for the health care bill. > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/860254394016817153) The vote on Thursday came six weeks after House Republicans had to [pull a previous version](http://time.com/4712852/ahca-donald-trump-obamacare-repeal-failure/) of the bill because they failed to get enough support from their caucus. But the legislation has [been amended](http://time.com/4712852/ahca-donald-trump-obamacare-repeal-failure/) to appeal to more of the far-right members of Congress. The bill gives tax cuts to the wealthy and rolls back the [expansion of Medicaid](http://time.com/4566900/medicaid-donald-trump-healthcare/). It also reduces assistance to low-income Americans, defunds Planned Parenthood for a year and weakens protections for people with [pre-existing conditions](http://time.com/4762385/ahca-health-care-preexisting-conditions-facts/). Because it was finalized and passed quickly, the Congressional Budget Office did not have time to score the bill before lawmakers voted. But the CBO found the previous version of the bill would have resulted in [24 million fewer insured people](http://time.com/4700051/obamacare-repeal-cbo-congressional-budget-office-analysis/) by 2026. Now the bill has to make it past the Senate, where some Republicans have already [expressed skepticism](http://time.com/4767461/lindsey-graham-republican-health-care-bill-obamacare-repeal-ahca/). But before that happens, [Democrats](http://time.com/4767631/hey-hey-goodbye-healthcare-bill/) like Clinton want to make sure lawmakers hear their objections. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4768216/health-care-bill-ahca-hillary-clinton-fight-back/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4768216/health-care-bill-ahca-hillary-clinton-fight-back/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton: Republican Health Care Bill Is a 'Shameful Failure of Policy and Morality'","datePublished":"2017-05-04T23:06:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T10:56:16.039Z","description":"She told followers to 'fight back' against Republicans who voted for the bill","url":"https://time.com/4768216/health-care-bill-ahca-hillary-clinton-fight-back/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a490db08b1d0ae1/6988cc140a4a2228e59ce0b4/hillary-clinton-trump-health-care-bill-democrats-republicans.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abigail Abrams","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a490db08b1d0ae1/6988cc140a4a2228e59ce0b4/hillary-clinton-trump-health-care-bill-democrats-republicans.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2017 Gloria Awards: A Salute to Women of Vision Gala","caption":"Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks onstage at the Ms. Foundation for Women 2017 Gloria Awards Gala at Capitale on May 3, 2017 in New York City.","creditText":"Daniel Zuchnik—FilmMagic/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":"https://time.com/4768216/health-care-bill-ahca-hillary-clinton-fight-back/","name":"Hillary Clinton: Republican Health Care Bill Is a 'Shameful Failure of Policy and Morality'"}}]}] ```