Group highlights Vice President's strong support for the Act

Draft Biden 2016, a group formed to encourage Vice President Joe Biden to enter the 2016 presidential race, applauds the U.S. Supreme Court ruling favorably to uphold core elements of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law.

The second ruling in three years to preserve the Affordable Care Act or "Obamacare", was crucial to continue implementation and rejected Republican-backed legal challenges that had threatened to undercut the President's legacy.

No less a champion of the Affordable Care Act, Vice President Joe Biden touted Obamacare earlier this year in an effort to convince customers to sign up for health insurance just weeks before the enrollment deadline.

Vice President Biden said, "Everyone is beginning to realize what millions of you already know. The Affordable Care Act is working. And we're just getting started because there are millions more of you who can get quality and affordable health insurance if you sign up before February 15 of this year."

Also earlier this year, Vice President Joe Biden defended the Affordable Care Act at a summit on patient safety telling doctors that the Affordable Care Act had "ended the debate" about whether health care is a privilege or a right and that it "incentivized quality care by ending things like automatic Medicare/Medicaid payments."

"This is why we need Joe Biden in the 2016 race," said Draft Biden 2016 Executive Director William Pierce. "Everything the Obama-Biden administration has done for this country over the past six years could be torn to shreds if the GOP takes the White House."

Pierce further added, "There are so many accomplishments and yet so much left to be done on climate change, infrastructure, gun safety, immigration reform, education, and more. With two terms as Vice President, Joe Biden would be the best candidate to best carry these issues forward."

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