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President Obama Pitches Obamacare

September 27th, 2013 by WCBC Radio

President Barack Obama says congressional critics of the 3-year-old health care law have become more irresponsible in their attempts to kill it the closer the law comes to full implementation. Obama on Thursday set out to pitch the law known as "Obamacare," five days before the start of a six-month sign-up period for millions of uninsured Americans. House Republicans are inserting provisions that undermine the health care law into a short-term spending measure needed to avoid a government shutdown on Oct. 1 and into legislation that would increase the government's borrowing ability, which the Treasury says will hit its limit in mid-October.  In Maryland, Governor Martin O’Malley has been an outspoken supporter of the affordable health care law and says his state began implementation early on….





 

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