A warm embrace and familiar images. Tuesday, Barack Obama was invited to the White House to celebrate the twelfth anniversary of the law on health insurance, the Affordable Care Act, nicknamed “Obamacare” and entered into force in March 2010. He paid tribute to the current US President Joe Biden, his “brother”, and laughed as he called him “Vice President Biden” – a slip or a little mockery in reference to their joint terms…and the few occasions when the Democrat’s language 79-year-old forked, such as when he called his vice president “President Harris.”
“It’s good to be back in the White House,” said the former American president, who, unlike his predecessors, was unable to reveal his official portrait in the corridors of the presidential residence due to the execrable relations with his successor Donald Trump. Barack Obama remembered the complicated months that led to the adoption of this text: “I wanted to reform the health care system even if it cost me re-election and at one point, it almost took the path”. At the time, Barack Obama found himself facing strong opposition from Republicans, who ended up regaining the majority in the House of Representatives despite the Democrat’s re-election in 2012, complicating his second term. Despite heavy criticism, Donald Trump has failed to repeal this major text, which Joe Biden has promised to “further strengthen” – while he himself is in a complicated political situation, with an extreme polarization of reports policies, a risk of losing the majority in the House and equality in the Senate, which is in fact a narrow majority thanks to the vote of Kamala Harris, President of the Senate.