WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared his health care law a firmly established “reality” of American life even as the legality of one of its key elements awaits a decision by the Supreme Court.
“This is now part of the fabric of how we care for one another,” Obama said of the law, one of his most prized domestic policy accomplishments.
For the second day in a row, Obama mounted a stout defense of a law that remains unpopular with the public.
It has been under legal challenge but that has contributed to 14.75 million adults gaining coverage since its health care exchanges began signing up people in 2013.
The critics stubbornly ignore reality.
