5.
"and remain uninsured." President Obama could have said from the start
that the law's only real goal was to cover people who didn't have
health insurance. He could have admitted that doing this would create
more chaos, higher costs and worse care for American families.
Hillary Clinton is telling voters she wants "to build on" Obamacare.
But President Obama's signature healthcare law remains highly unpopular
because many Americans believe it's not a good deal for them personally.
The president essentially laid out a case for his own law's failures in
an article he wrote for the Journal of the American Medical Association.
He wrote: "too many Americans still strain to pay for their physician
visits and prescriptions, cover their deductibles, or pay their monthly
insurance bills; struggle to navigate a complex, sometimes bewildering
system; and remain uninsured."
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