(Bloomberg Politics) — To hear the White House tell it, 11.4 million Americans can’t be wrong.
President Obama trumpeted the success of his signature health car law on Tuesday, releasing a video on Facebook that boasted that 11.4 million people who have signed up or re-enrolled in Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) exchange plans in 2015. Sunday was the official deadline for most Americans to sign up for individual major medical coverage.
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“The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, is working,” Obama said in a video shot in the Oval Office featuring the president and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell. “It’s working better than we anticipated, certainly working a lot better than many of the critics talked about early on.”