In Boston speech, Obama defends national health care law
Source: Boston Globe
President Obama gave a vociferous defense of his signature health care law on Wednesday in Boston, returning to the intellectual birthplace of the legislation as he attempted defend his signature accomplishment after a difficult debut.
“Yes, this is hard. The health care system’s a big system, and it’s complicated,” Obama said at Faneuil Hall. “If it was hard doing it just in one state, it’s hard doing it in 50 states -- especially when the governors of a bunch of states, and half of Congress, don’t want to help.”
“But it’s important,” he added, before pounding on the podium. “We have to keep moving forward -- just like you did in Massachusetts.”
Obama’s health law with its insurance mandate, subsidies for low-income people, and online market place won narrow approval in Congress in 2010, survived a Supreme Court challenge, and failed to be the fatal political weapon that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Republicans hoped in the 2012 presidential election.
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