President Obama Declares Health Insurance is ‘A Right’

During his weekly address from August 17, President Obama declared that health insurance isn’t just a privilege–it’s a right. The address, titled “Working to Implement the Affordable Care Act,” featured all the President’s well-worn claims about Obamacare that we are used to hearing. Obama touted the fact that people under 26 can stay on their parent’s insurance, he talked of the “free mammograms,” and celebrated the access to “contraceptive care.” And then, in full demagogic mode, Obama went on to excoriate Republicans for trying to hurt “sick people” and the economy by opposing his Obamacare law. Warming to his theme, … Continue reading President Obama Declares Health Insurance is ‘A Right’