Obama: Health law has ‘real’ but fixable problems

Published October 3, 2016 3:16pm ET



President Obama admitted his healthcare law has “real problems,” but argued in a wide-ranging interview with New York Magazine released late Sunday that those problems are fixable.

“In my mind, the [Affordable Care Act] has been a huge success, but it’s got real problems,” Obama told the magazine. “They’re eminently fixable problems in terms of strengthening the marketplace, improving the subsidies so more folks can get it, making sure everybody has Medicaid who was qualified under the original legislation, doing more on the cost containment.

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