Obama Defends Obamacare: 'This Law Is Working'

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

President Obama defended the Affordable Care Act in a Tuesday speech, asserting that HealthCare.gov is working better and people are getting covered.

"The bottom line is this law is working and will work into the future," he said at the White House. "People want the financial stability of health insurance, and we're going to keep on working to fix whatever problems come up in any startup or launch of a project this big that has an impact on one-sixth of our economy."

Obama touted the 500,000 people enrolled in private coverage or Medicaid during the first month of the marketplaces created by the law.

"What we also know is that after just after the first month, despite all of the problems in the rollout, about half a million people across the country are poised to gain health care coverage through marketplaces and Medicaid beginning Jan. 1. Some for the very first time," he said.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-obamacare-is-working

[truthisfreedom]

1. Obama rocks! Yay!!! GObama!!!

[freshwest]

2. It's been working since 2010. Not a peep in the media:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110219820

[SoapBox]

3. Ditto.

[quadrature]

4. we won't know for awhile

what happens in six months?

the easy part, letting 20somethings stay
on their parent's policy, is old news

[alp227]

5. The Guardian: Obama takes on healthcare critics and says: there's no going back

Barack Obama went on the offensive over his ailing healthcare reforms on Wednesday, challenging Republicans to suggest alternatives and insisting there was no going back to the previous system that left 43 million Americans uninsured.

As the White House sought to use recent improvements to its broken website to turn the public debate around, Obama spoke in front of a group of patients who had already benefited from other reforms under the Affordable Care Act.

"My main message today is: we're not going back," said the president. "That seems to be the only alternative that Obamacare's opponents have."

“If you don't like the law, then you have got to tell us specifically what you would do differently. You can't just say the system was working when 43 million went without health insurance.”

full: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/03/obama-healthcare-critics-no-going-back

[Doctor_J]

6. "There's no going back". So can we put away the "this will lead to SP" bullshit?

we now have profit-based health "care" in perpetuity.