President Obama intends to use the Supreme Court’s ruling on his health care law to rally Democrats this fall, arguing that the high court’s validation proves his party is more committed than Republicans to protecting the health and welfare of all Americans.
“Today, I’m as confident as ever that when we look back five years from now, or 10 years from now or 20 years from now, we’ll be better off because we had the courage to pass this law and keep moving forward,” Obama said from the East Room of the White House.
The court’s ruling, upholding most of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on a 5-4 vote, finally set the course for the campaign debate that Republicans, in particular, have been eager to start. While the GOP now touts the health care reforms as a tax and an unwarranted expansion of government, Obama used the ruling to portray his signature legislative accomplishment as a political act of courage.
“It should be pretty clear by now that I didn’t do this because it was good politics,” he said. “I did it because I believed it was good for the country. I did it because I believed it was good for the American people.”
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