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(9,259 posts) Sun Mar 24, 2024, 04:10 PM Mar 24

Obama: It was fourteen years ago today [View all]

Barack Obama
@BarackObama
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.

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Obama: It was fourteen years ago today [View all] speak easy Mar 24 OP

I am so grateful for the ACA. Phoenix61 Mar 24 #1

big GIANT K&R WarGamer Mar 24 #2

"it actually worked" mnmoderatedem Mar 24 #3

So nice to see you, Mr. President! CTyankee Mar 24 #4

It was and is a BFD, as Joe so vividly pointed out Hekate Mar 24 #5

And the republicans who were so outraged by Joe's epithet COL Mustard Mar 24 #6

ACA has saved me--a lymphoma survivor bmichaelh Mar 24 #7

❤️ littlemissmartypants Mar 25 #15

Saved my life. Elessar Zappa Mar 24 #8

❤️ littlemissmartypants Mar 25 #16

I'll defend it while criticizing it's basis IbogaProject Mar 24 #9

As a beneficiary of the ACA, lastlib Mar 24 #10

Plenty of DUers were against it at the time IronLionZion Mar 24 #11

I remember seeing BS for years: Big Insurance bribing Obama plot, that he personally betsuni Mar 25 #19

It allowed my wife and I to retire at 62 with Emile Mar 24 #12

Thank you President Obama! catbyte Mar 24 #13

Wow, that's intense. JudyM Mar 24 #14

❤️ littlemissmartypants Mar 25 #17

K&R betsuni Mar 25 #18

I would rec BWdem4life Mar 25 #20