Obama picks ACA passage as best moment of his presidency

Caitlin Dickson
·Reporter
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President Obama answers a question at McKinley High School in Baton Rouge, La., Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. (Photo: Carlos Barria/Reuters)

For President Obama, the greatest moment of his last seven years in the Oval Office was the night the Affordable Care Act passed.

“Standing on truman balcony with all staff whod made it happen, knowing we’d helped millions,” the president tweeted in response to a question he received on Twitter Thursday.

The president was in Louisiana to commend new Gov. John Bel Edwards on his plans to expand Medicaid in the state. After taking questions from students and local residents at Baton Rouge’s McKinley High School, Obama set up shop behind a laptop adorned with the presidential seal and opened up the floor for questioning on Twitter.

Using the hashtag #AskPOTUS, people from all over the country submitted a wide range of questions, and several got answers from the president himself, who took on topics ranging from climate change and college costs to his all-time favorite NBA player.

During his final State of the Union address Tuesday, Obama touted the Affordable Care Act as one of his administration’s biggest accomplishments of the past seven years but acknowledged that not everyone in Congress feels the same way.

“I’m guessing we won’t agree on health care anytime soon,” he quipped. “Just a guess.”

Thursday, the president took the opportunity to re-emphasize his sense of pride in passing the landmark reform — and provided one young supporter with what has surely become her favorite moment of Obama’s presidency.