A great day for Obama - and most Americans !

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http://www.smh.com.au/ - June 26, 2015

Supreme Court backs Barack Obama's healthcare legacy

Washington: US President Barack Obama has just enjoyed perhaps the best day of his second term in the midst of a week that could decide his place in history.

On Thursday the  US Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Obamacare by six votes to three – an overwhelming ruling in a court as divided as  US society – cementing into place Obama's most significant domestic achievement.

As Vice-President Joe Biden infamously described the passage of the original law, "this is a big f…ing deal", and Obama was not about to let the victory pass unmarked.

He soon appeared before reporters at the White House and  said that since Obamacare had been put in place by Congress it had survived 50 votes to repeal it, two Supreme Court challenges and a presidential election.

Obamacare, like social security was now woven into the fabric of the nation. More than 16 million more people had access to health insurance as a result of the law, and the number of uninsured had dropped by one third even as healthcare costs had seen their lowest rate of inflation in a generation.

Whatever other achievements or failures may in future be attributed to him, this will make Obama a significant president at least to his own party, which has been trying to extend health coverage to more Americans since the Truman administration after World War II.

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