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Signed into law on March 23, 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as ObamaCare, would be turning 10 later this month. However, former President Barack Obama is gearing up for an upcoming Supreme Court battle that could potentially overturn the legislation he helped create.
In a 90-second clip released by the liberal advocacy group Protect Our Care, Barack Obama highlighted the benefits of his signature domestic legislation. “It’s been 10 years since we passed the Affordable Care Act. With your help, it's the closest we’ve ever come to universal coverage in America,” Obama said, according to The Hill.
“There are people alive today because of what you did,” the former POTUS added, according to CNN. “That's something worth celebrating, but it's also progress worth protecting.”
Unlike Obama’s humorous videos promoting ACA in the past, the tone of the recent clip is serious as he highlighted that voters were able to protect Obamacare when Democrats controlled the House of Representatives after the 2018 midterm elections. This temporarily ended President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers' attempt to repeal the legislation through congressional action.
“You helped protect it with your vote in 2018,” Obama added. “But even with a House of Representatives committed to building on the Affordable Care Act, Republicans will keep trying, both in Congress and in the courts, to rip away the care that millions of Americans rely on and to raise costs for millions more.”
“So even as we celebrate, we commit ourselves to protecting the progress we've made until we finish the job for good with quality affordable coverage for every single American,” the former President said.
As announced last week, the Supreme Court will take the case that seeks to overturn ObamaCare. It will be heard in the court's next term, which will start in October this year. This means that a decision will likely come out only after the elections this November.
Obama’s former Vice President Joe Biden already committed to protecting the legislation if elected. Bernier Sanders, on the other hand, intends to replace the Affordable Care Act with his “Medicare for All” proposal, which Obama reported called a “good idea” in 2018.
