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Four years after the passage of the health care reform law and the subsequent shellacking in the 2010 midterm election, Democrats say they are not shying away from the Obamacare fight, even as Republicans make it the centerpiece of their 2014 campaign.

In a new memo, Democratic National Committee spokesman Mo Elleithee takes aim at the Republican strategy for the fall, saying that with the law now implemented, the GOP is for the first time running on a platform of taking away existing benefits. The messaging follows the partys loss in special election in Floridas 13th congressional district earlier this month, where a Republican barrage of anti-Obamacare ads tanked Democrat Alex Sink. But Democrats are pointing a recent incident in which New Hampshire GOP Senate hopeful Scott Brown was confronted by Republicans who are benefiting from the law as a sign of things to come.

Thats the choice voters have in November: between Republicans who voted over 50 times to take away your rights and go back to the days when insurance companies could cancel your coverage on a whim; and Democrats who will protect a law that is working for millions of Americans and make sure it works even better, Elleithee said.

The memo comes in advance of a joint conference call Friday by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and the heads of the partys House and Senate campaign committees to mark the four-year anniversary of the law and discuss its potential impact on 2014 races.

From: Mo Elleithee, DNC Communications Director To: Interested Parties Re: The Politics of Obamacare, Four Years Later Date: March 21, 2014

This week marks four years since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law. Since its passage, Republicans have spent hundreds of millions of dollars attacking the law, confusing people and discouraging them from participating.

They ran against Obamacare in 2012 and lost. In 2013 in Virginia, Republicans ran against Obamacare and Democrats won historic victories.

All signs point to Republicans running against Obamacare again in 2014. But this year will be a little different for the first time they are running to take away benefits that virtually every American who has health care is benefiting from.

Whats more, theyve wasted time and energy voting over 50 times to repeal, gut or dismantle the law at the expense of other legislative priorities that have broad support, like commonsense immigration reform.

Polling consistently shows that the American people reject the GOPs repeal plans.

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Democrats Have Message For Obamacare-Bashing GOP: Bring It On