President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the Affordable Care Act, at the Fairmont San Jose in San Jose, Calif., June 7, 2013.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Today President Obama was in California to talk about how the Affordable Care Act benefits people in the state, and across the country.
First, for those who already have health insurance, President Obama explained that the law has already provided a wide array of new benefits, better protections and stronger cost controls they didn’t have before.
“Protections, like allowing people up to the age of 26 to stay on their parent's health care plans, which has already helped 6 million Americans,” President Obama said. “Cost controls, like requiring insurance companies to spend at least 80 percent of the money that you pay in premiums in your actual health care costs, as opposed to administrative costs or CEO pay.”
Second, for the tens of millions of Americans – including 6 million Californians – who don’t currently have health insurance, “you’ll soon be able to buy quality, affordable care just like everybody else,” President Obama said today. “And here’s how.”
Fonte: White House