Here are three things to know about the president’s upcoming visit.
1. President Obama’s trip is intended to reward Milwaukee, which won a nationwide Healthy Communities competition by enrolling an estimated 38,376 people in private health insurance under the ACA, according to the report. That number represents an estimated 75 percent of previously uninsured residents who were eligible, a rate higher than that of any other city in the nation, according to the report.
2. The president’s trip is also intended to promote successes of the ACA. President Obama will talk with a handful of people who wrote him letters saying the ACA had changed their lives, and will deliver a speech at a downtown Milwaukee middle school, in which he will highlight that the ACA is working despite opposition from Republicans, according to the report.
3. During his trip, President Obama will likely take aim at Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), who was largely responsible for the state’s decision to use the ACA to expand Medicaid while declining federal money offered to pay for that expansion, an administration official said, according to The New York Times.
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