Washington, March 26 (IANS): US President Barack Obama has claimed the health-care law which took effects five years ago worked "better than expected."
The Affordable Care Act was signed on March 23, 2010, and has been an issue that deeply divides the Democrats and the Republicans since then, Xinhua reported.
Democrats regarded it as the culmination of tremendous efforts in the past decade to ensure health coverage for Americans across the nation, including people with health problems who till then had often been refused insurance coverage by insurance companies.
On the other hand, Republicans dismissed the Affordable Care Act as government overreach, and haven been trying to repeal or roll back what they dubbed as "Obamacare."