WH says Obama focused on national health care
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White House spokesman Josh Earnest says President Barack Obama's top priority following Tuesday's election is not his legacy.
Earnest says the president is focused on the 20 million people who gained health insurance after the Affordable Care Act went into effect.
Earnest is taking questions from reporters about how the election results will affect Obama's legacy on issues such as health care and climate change.
Earnest says the president is also concerned about the prospect of protections being stripped from millions of Americans who benefit because health insurers are not allowed to discriminate based on pre-existing health conditions or impose a lifetime cap on expenses.
Earnest says the tearing away those protections would negatively affect a lot of people, and "that's something Republicans will have to consider moving forward."
