CNN March 10, 2020
Caroline Kelly and Tami Luhby

With the 10-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act fast approaching, former President Barack Obama highlighted the landmark health reform law‘s benefits in a new video released Tuesday.

“With your help, it’s the closest we’ve ever come to universal coverage in America,” Obama said in the 90-second clip released by Protect Our Care, a liberal advocacy group. “There are people alive today because of what you did. There are 135 million Americans whose pre-existing conditions are now protected because of what you did.”

He added, “That’s something worth celebrating, but it’s also progress worth protecting.”

Obama filmed several videos promoting the ACA — usually with a humorous bent — while he was in office and then more...

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