giving the profile in courage award. so welcome back to our special coverage of it. both republican and democratic presidents from truman, harry truman, some say back to franklin roosevelt to richard nixon, richard nixon, back further, tried to expand health care to all americans, it was president barack obama, however, who was the first to actually deliver the affordable care act. of course, rebranded obamacare standses ah ss as his signaturec accomplishment. i have no problem with folks saying obama cares. i do care. if the other side wants to be the folks who don t care, that s fine with me. principle campaign promise that bill was signed into law on march 23, 2010, aloud americans to purchase health care and almost immediately came under
oh, gosh, i d say that s a surprise to me. i m surprised because the other data that i ve seen i haven t checked recently, i don t think people would be eager to repeal it if they know folks want to keep it. but i m eager to repeal. it it is the case this bill was unpopular for a long time, 45% support. it s now majority support and 63% want to see it kept or expanded. you want to see it repealed? done away with? i want it all ripped out by the roots. i want to repeal every word of it. i wrote the repeal bill in the middle of the night, march 23, 2010. those 40 words end with as if it had never been enacted. and that s the bill i d like to see go from the house which it s passed in the past over to the senate and set it on mitch mcconnell s desk so we start fresh. i say we have a bad foundation, we need to start fresh and
the supreme court expected to take on a case this week that pits obamacare against religious freedom and at issue is whether privately owned businesses should be forced to provide coverage of certain contraceptives for their employees. the obama the companies would prevent women from getting access to low-cost forms of birth control. the oklahoma city-based company leading the fight, says it should not have to cover contraception methods which it objects such as the so-called emergency contraceptive known as plan b . affordable care act is turning four years old today and the president signed the bill into law march 23, 2010. supporters and critics speaking about the law as millions of americans face that march 31 deadline to sign up. here is talk about it is chief congressional correspondent at the washington examiner.
constitutionality of just a broad scope of a program and where does it stop. so for critics, they don t think it goes far enough. you had senator leahy. others who say listen, we need more oversight issues not less. fine line to walk for sure. what about this, the post-election delay, talk about the speed or lack thereof, the obamacare equal coverage rule has been delayed. it s not going to impact employers until after the midterm elections. what are some details there? the coverage that would give the executives better coverage than every worker in the whole organization, that s not going to be implemented yet. yeah. i don t know what number delay, but this is a lot of delays that obamacare has now had. this is another one. this was supposed to be instituted six months in after the law was put into place, march 23, 2010, and it didn t.
seven terms. he claim a democrat cannot win in utah due to the outrage of obamacare. is this the beginning of a tough election year for democrats or just with utah? he s running to fill she is running to fill his seat. mayor, thank you for joining us. what s your reaction to him backing out of running again? i certainly respect his decision not to run again and wish him and his family well. we re going to just doesn t change our strategy. we re going to work hard to earn every single vote and it s the same strategy. you got so close to winning last time. one of the most expensive congressional races in the country. now this time the advantage i think the republicans have that voted against it is they did not vote for obamacare. do you think mathisson is the tip of the spear on this? look, since march 23, 2010,