Obama: ObamaCare Is Working, Despite Attempts To Repeal, Defund, Defame

“And I want to thank everybody here today for their work in supporting new models of care that will benefit all Americans. But the bottom line is this for the American people: The Affordable Care Act, this law, is saving money for families and for businesses. This law is also saving lives — lives that touch all of us. It’s working despite countless attempts to repeal, undermine, defund, and defame this law.

It’s not the ‘job-killer’ that critics have warned about for five years. When this law was passed, our businesses began the longest streak of private-sector job growth on record: 60 straight months, five straight years, 12 million new jobs. It’s not the fiscal disaster critics warned about for five years. Health care prices are rising at the slowest rate in nearly 50 years, which has helped cut our deficit by two-thirds since I took office. Before the ACA, health care was the single biggest driver driving up our projected deficits.

Today, health care is the single biggest factor driving those projections down. I mean, we have been promised a lot of things these past five years that didn’t turn out to be the case: death panels, doom. (Laughter) A serious alternative from Republicans in Congress.” (Laughter)