USA TODAY – NEW YORK – If “Obamacare” is so great, President Obama asked Tuesday, why do polls show it is so unpopular?
In a nearly hour-long pitch for his signature legislative achievement, Obama and his health care ally, former president Bill Clinton, said that mandated health insurance would improve the economy and torpedo the budget deficit, all for the cost, Obama said, of a monthly cellphone bill.
Obama conceded that the health care overhaul remains controversial four years after it was passed. “Let’s face it, it’s been a little political, this whole Obamacare thing,” he said.
An intense effort by Republicans opposed to the health insurance mandate, including “wacky” TV ads — one featuring an Uncle Sam character interfering in a woman’s gynecological checkup — has scared potential customers, Obama said.
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