Obama aims to change conversation around health care law

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is aiming to change the conversation around his health care law from talk about undoing it to talk of how to make it better.

Obama was heading to the Nashville, Tennessee-area on Wednesday to discuss ways to improve the Affordable Care Act, including by extending Medicaid coverage to more low-income people. Tennessee is among about 20 states that have rejected Obama’s offer of billions of dollars to help pay to expand the federal-state health care program for the poor.

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld federal financial aid to millions of low-income Americans to help pay for insurance premiums regardless of where they live.

Obama then declared the law is “here to stay” and said health care in American could be made even better.

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