
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama will try to shore up support for his health care law by putting its beneficiaries on display at the White House.
Obama today (Tuesday) meets with 10 Americans from across the country who wrote him letters about how they’ve benefited from the Affordable Care Act.
Obama plans to speak and hold a photo-op with them in the Roosevelt Room.
A bill to repeal the health care law faces a House vote today.
Obama threatens to veto it.
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