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"The Affordable Care Act has been successful in our states because our political and community leaders grasped the importance of expanding health-care coverage and have avoided the temptation to use health-care reform as a political football.
...In our states, elected leaders have decided to put people, not politics, first.
...What we all agree with completely, though, is the president’s insistence that our country cannot go back to the dark days before health-care reform, when people were regularly dropped from coverage, and those with “bare bones” plans ended up in medical bankruptcy when serious illness struck, many times because their insurance didn’t cover much of anything.
Thanks to health-care reform and the robust exchanges in our states, people are getting better coverage at a better price.
...Health reform is working for the people of Washington, Kentucky and Connecticut because elected leaders on both sides of the aisle came together to do what is right for their residents."
THE WASHINGTON POST: How we got Obamacare to work
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THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Shame of American Health Care
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