Month: March 2015
PensitoWire
- Matthew Yglesias: The “Decline” of Marriage Isn’t a Problem
- The National Memo: Saudi Money And The Moral Posturing Of Rand Paul
- Salon.com: 14 Ways Republicans Have Declared War on the Middle Class
- Media Matters: MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: “Odious” Emails Provide “A View Into The World Of Tucker Carlson”
- Think Progress: Ted Cruz Wants You To Believe He’s Legally Required To Sign Up For Obamacare. He’s Not.
- Buzzfeed: Democrats’ Loudest Attack Dog Can’t Stop Baiting Bobby Jindal
Obama: ACA Was the GOP’s Plan ‘Based on Conservative, Market-Based Principles Developed by the Heritage Foundation’
Five years after passage of the Affordable Care Act, the metrics point to success: the percentage of Americans who are uninsured has fallen dramatically, the runaway growth of healthcare costs has slowed, family budgets are more secure and, most importantly, lives are being saved. At an event on Wednesday marking the ACA’s fifth anniversary, Pres. Obama addressed these and the ACA’s other successes — and even pointed out the fundamental paradox of the GOP’s contrived opposition to it: The ACA was based on their own plan.
“[The] Affordable Care Act pretty much was their plan before I adopted it,” the president said, “based on conservative, market-based principles developed by the Heritage Foundation and supported by Republicans in Congress, and deployed by a guy named Mitt Romney in Massachusetts to great effect. If they want to take credit for this law, they can. I’m happy to share it.”
