Obama’s SOTU address highlights ACA, new individualized medicine initiative

Laura Pedulli | | Health Exec | Policy & Regulations

 

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama described the Affordable Care Act as part of the fabric of middle-class economic recovery as he spoke to a Republican-controlled Congress still working to dismantle the law, reports Clinical Innovation + Technology.

"We can't put the security of families at risk by taking away their health insurance, or unraveling the new rules on Wall Street, or refighting past battles on immigration when we've got a system to fix," Obama said. "And if a bill comes to my desk that tries to do any of these things, it will earn my veto."

Obama also proposed the Precision Medicine Initiative to fight diseases such as cancer and diabetes. "I want the country that eliminated polio and mapped the human genome to deliver a new era of medicine, one that delivers the right treatment at the right time."

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Healthcare an important topic in Obama's SOTU address

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