Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Index / Policies Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Transcripts Muriel Finegold ...public option, when he was working on Obamacare . I was into it in many ways, in man... ...struggle for it, and finally landing of Obamacare . But there were certainly other issue... ...The world was not standing still for Obamacare , for sure. There was certainly a lo... Michael Kassen ...two things above all, and they were Obamacare and the Iran deal. From you... Natalie Tennant ...produced by coal, but I also supported Obamacare , because I knew personally wha... Mary Beth Maxwell ...against other priorities like the ACA [Affordable Care Act], the Recovery Ac... ...against other priorities like the ACA [ Affordable Care Act ], the Recovery Act [American Recover... Harry Reid ...work. A bill that did work was the Affordable Care Act , although it took a lot of work to ge... ...Can you talk about the fight for the ACA ? That's probably the hardest work ... ...it's a long fight to put together the ACA —you have the Tea Party emerging, an... ...and focusing its attention on the ACA . How much was the Tea Party affectin... ...so terrific. She knows more about the Affordable Care Act than anybody today. She knew more abou... ...landmark legislation, Dodd-Frank, Affordable Care Act ; we did lots and lots of good stuff... ...afraid it was coming here. You had the Obamacare [Affordable Care Act] rollout tha... ...coming here. You had the Obamacare [ Affordable Care Act ] rollout that didn't work out well... ...Street in the history of the country; Obamacare , which was extremely difficult to ge... Show more... Danielle Gray ...of the room during all of the early ACA [Affordable Care Act] meetings, an... ...the room during all of the early ACA [ Affordable Care Act ] meetings, and helped Nancy-An... ...during those early days. But the ACA assignment probably took up the chun... ...were a lot of thorny issues around the ACA . What were some of the bigges... ...reform? There were a few. The ACA lived many lives before it was eve... ...reform, and would that be a part of ACA . And then, I think, as it got close... ...a severability clause in the ultimate ACA . And for reasons that made a lot o... ...think about some of the challenges the ACA is going through. So that was a bi... ...was that weekend before the Affordable Care Act was voted on, and then that wee... ...that felt like it might derail the Affordable Care Act were provisions around abortio... ...to us about a week or two before the ACA was ultimately enacted, and said, “Ca... ...to our friends that want to support the ACA but are concerned that the Hyde Ac... ...the Thursday before the—if the ACA passed, I think, on a Sunday night, ... ...I spent the weekend that the ACA passed—I remember that Saturday comin... ...about whether they could vote for the ACA , and to bring the executive order. S... ...people they're okay, is the fate of the ACA . So, the next morning I come back t... ...and was the top speechwriter on ACA issues, so he was probably going to b... ...who had anything to do with the ACA , they got an invitation around fiv... ...pulled it off. And, like I said, the ACA had so many deaths before it was eve... ...know you have these moments around the ACA . How does it change your relationshi... ...the president, getting to work on the ACA , getting to work on two Supreme Cour... ...with closely with Secretary Sebelius on ACA implementation, or Secretary Vilsack o... ...we increase awareness? On efforts like ACA implementation, and some of the energ... ...the first term with the passage of the Affordable Care Act . And, sometime after that, you mov... ...pieces of legislation in the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank, had made movement o... ...of Justice, and particularly around the ACA . So I started to think, Well, thi... ...the role I helped play. So, on the Affordable Care Act , as those cases were being defended i... ...Department of Justice, working on the ACA , working on some of these LGBT cases... ...if what we just saw last year with the Affordable Care Act , right? What happens when tha... ...legislation. And when it came to the ACA , how vulnerable did that law feel? Di... ...arguments being advanced against the ACA were frivolous. So that was ... ...active from the Treasury side on the Affordable Care Act . So whenever I would go to Office o... ...weeks. He wants to do more to promote ACA enrollment. Right? So can we connec... ...And that was a big deal. With the ACA , we fought so hard for Medicai... ...right? The first few years of the ACA , seven million more African American... ...secretary, because you had seen the ACA from the very beginning all the wa... ...And 2013 was the rollout of the ACA . And I was wondering if you could tal... ...So I had just been asking you about the ACA rollout in 2013. Yes. I used to jok... ...in 2013 were that we bungled the ACA rollout and Edward Snowden stole all o... ...second thing I would say about the ACA rollout, as I think about wha... ...We spent a lot of time on the ACA . We spent a lot of time on trying t... Show more... Claudia Rankine ...second term? I think somewhat. The Affordable Care Act came when, 2010? Yes. So that's th... Sophia Ford-Glanton ...how closely were you following the Affordable Care Act debates and the development of tha... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Supreme Court Supreme Court go to the Middle East and North Africa Middle East and North Africa go to the Agriculture Agriculture go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Education Education