The Affordable Care Act extended health coverage to nearly twenty million Americans.

Evidence

It was the signature policy proposal of the nation’s first Black president, a sweeping overhaul of the healthcare system that broke a decades-long stalemate and brought health coverage to nearly twenty million previously uninsured adults. “It has now been nearly a century since Theodore Roosevelt first called for healthcare reform,” President Barack Obama told Congress in the fall of 2009. “Our collective failure to meet this challenge, year after year, decade after decade, has led us to a breaking point.” When the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—Obamacare, as it quickly became known—was signed into law, Vice President Joe Biden was heard leaning over to Obama and whispering, “This is a big fucking deal.” — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1156

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• CANDY: Biden whispering ‘This is a big fucking deal’ at the ACA signing is a light, tweetable moment.