Jarrett slammed the Trump administration for not effectively "marketing" Obamacare to get more Americans to sign up for coverage.
"I mean, we had hundreds of meetings. We made hundreds of amendments. It was all very transparent. We invited the Republicans in for an open press session to answer all of their questions. It was a collaborative effort. The intent was to make it bipartisan and the intent was to be open and honest with the American people. Our scoring was put out for everybody to see because we wanted people to understand, before a decision was made, what was at stake and what we were trying to accomplish," Jarrett said during a Democrats Live event on Wednesday evening.
"Right now, everyone was scurrying around this week to read a very long and complicated bill, and the question you have to say was, ’if they’re proud of it, why were they hiding it behind closed doors?’ And my real hot-button was why were 13 men in a room deciding about healthcare that impacts my life? You have 21 women in the Senate. They couldn’t have picked one of those women to be there?" she added.
Jarrett criticized the Republican effort to roll back the Obamacare requirement that all health insurance plans cover maternity care.