Fourteen years ago today, I signed the Affordable Care Act into law. Afterwards, one Republican member of the House called the ACA the “most dangerous piece of legislation ever passed in Congress.” Another predicted the country would “never recover from it.” But then something else happened: it actually worked.
Since the ACA was passed, the percentage of uninsured Americans has been cut in half. And thanks to the investments the Biden-Harris Administration has made to build on the ACA, more than 21 million Americans now have access to quality, affordable health care.
Today, young people are staying on their parents’ plans until they’re 26. Americans with pre-existing conditions are no longer being denied coverage. Seniors and people with disabilities are paying less for prescription drugs. And Americans everywhere are switching jobs and starting their own businesses without worrying about losing their insurance.
@BarackObama We didn't call you liar-in-chief for nothing.
@BarackObama Stop calling it insurance. The number of people forced to pay other people's bills has increased. That's what you're referring to. Compulsory payment of expected payments is the opposite of insurance. Insurance is the option to share unexpected costs.
>> quality, affordable health care<< This is just not true. It’s expensive and poor quality. One must endure denial after denial of coverage. Doctors have to constantly argue for their patients to be covered, often to no avail. All the quality providers stopped offering private insurance, dealing exclusively with corporations, so if you don’t get healthcare insurance from your job, you don’t get quality, and you pay a lot. All the ACA did was give Democrats an illusion for a talking point, and insurance companies a stranglehold on Americans.