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Jan 3, 2017 · 1. Passed Health Care Reform. After five presidents over the course of a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
Mar 10, 2023 · Here are 28 of President Obama's biggest accomplishments as President of the United States. 1 – Rescued the country from the Great Recession, cutting the unemployment rate from 10% to 4.7%...
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- The first African American to be elected POTUS. In November 2008, Democratic Senator Barack Obama defeated Republican candidate Senator John McCain to claim the highest elected job of the nation.
- Lifted America out of the 2007/08 Global Financial Crisis. Considering the amount of havoc the financial crisis of 2007-2008 caused, it not surprising when reporters and business experts rightly touted it as second only to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
- He cracked the whip on rogue Wall Street bankers. The Obama administration also a passed host of measures and laws that were aimed at preventing a similar crisis of that sort from ever occurring.
- Massive Military pull out from Iraq. The Iraq War, which started in 2003 two years after the September 11 attacks, had become a thorn in the flesh of many Americans.
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On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the 906-page health care reform law known as Obamacare. It was, as a live microphone caught Vice...
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Official White House Photo by Pete Souza. Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States and the country’s first African American chief executive on January 20, 2009, having embraced the audacious hope of promoting a more-inclusive America, providing affordable health care for all of its citizens, arresting climate change, and ...
Mar 1, 2012 · by Paul Glastris, Ryan Cooper, and Siyu Hu March 1, 2012. Credit: (Also check out the main article, The Incomplete Greatness of Barack Obama, and the issue’s Editor’s Note .) 1. Passed...