15 years ago today, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to ensure Americans have reliable access to health coverage. Today, almost 50 million people have gained quality, affordable health care through the ACA. That’s one in seven Americans. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t change their country for the better, but if it could happen 15 years ago, it can happen again. On the anniversary of President Obama signing the landmark legislati

12 years ago today, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law and made it possible for millions of Americans to access affordable health care for the first time. In this video, Barack Obama reflects on why the night the law passed meant more to him than the night he was elected. But it wasn’t just the President who moved the mountain of affordable health care—it was the culmination of a movement that included thousands of activists, health care providers, and ordinary people who or