The American Health Care Act just passed the House of Representatives in a close vote on Tuesday.
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Former Obama Administration officials blast the Republican healthcare bill that just passed the House
Obama's secretary of Health and Human Services and former head of Medicare and Medicaid spoke out against the bill after the vote.
The bill is the latest iteration of congressional Republicans' attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
After the vote, members of the Obama Administration, which was responsible for the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2009, blasted the vote's outcome.
Sylvia Burwell, who served as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Servies under President Barack Obama from 2014-2017, said in a statement (emphasis ours):
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Andy Slavitt, the former head of Medicare and Medicaid under the Obama administration, wrote a sequence of tweets, calling this "their easiest round," and offering up an apology.
Organizing for America, Obama's super PAC, called the 217 representatives who voted for the bill "nothing more than rubber stamps."
Obama himself, who did tweet about Jimmy Kimmel's monologue about his son's open-heart surgery, did not immediately comment on the vote.
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