Michelle and Barack Obama would leave office with a quiet dignity, the major controversy of their tenure the outrage they caused simply by arguing that all Americans deserved equal access to health care. Why health care? They understood that the right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” promised in the Declaration of Independence, was a fatuous claim without equal access to health care. The Affordable Care Act, “Obamacare,” would not be everything the forty-fourth president wanted, but it would be transformative for so many lives, unless, of course, someone tried to destroy those
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