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Healthcare Retrospective

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🗓️ 26 September 2013

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Although President Obama signed it into law in March of 2010, the Affordable Care Act remains one of the nation’s most divisive issues. Over the past nearly four years, House Republicans have voted 40 times to repeal the law in part or in whole. Just this week, Senator Ted Cruz spent hours on the Senate floor speaking against the healthcare law, while President Obama took the stage at the Clinton Global Initiative to explain intricacies of the healthcare overhaul. So, how has it come to this point? Why does healthcare remain such a contested issue nearly 6 years into Barack Obama’s presidency? To shed light on the evolving public debate surrounding healthcare, Intelligence Squared US is recapping a debate it held in 2011, just 9 months after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. The controversial motion up for debate was: "Repeal Obamacare." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello, I'm John Donovan, host and moderator of Intelligent Squared U.S.

0:30.6

Although President Obama signed it into law in March of 2010, the Affordable Care Act

0:36.2

remains one of the nation's most divisive issues.

0:39.0

Senator Ted Cruz just spent hours on the Senate floor speaking against the health care

0:43.4

law while President Obama took the stage of the Clinton Global Initiative to explain

0:48.5

intricacies of the health care overhaul.

0:50.8

A lot of people don't have health insurance, a lot of people realize they should get health

0:54.5

insurance.

0:56.5

But let's face it, it's been a little political this old Obama care thing.

1:01.9

And so what you've had is an unprecedented effort that you've seen ramp up over the

1:08.6

last month or so, in which those who have opposed the idea of universal health care in

1:16.0

the first place and have fought this thing tooth and nail through Congress and through

1:20.1

the courts and so forth, have been trying to scare and discourage people from getting

1:25.5

a good deal.

1:26.9

The President was of course referring to the House Republicans who have voted 40 times

1:31.6

to repeal the law in part or in whole.

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