Obama: Health Insurance is a Right

U.s. President Barack Obama says the U.s. is "well on the path" to achieving the Affordable Care Act -otherwise called "Obamacare" -furnishing minimal effort heath protection for a large number of Americans.

The president said U.s. nationals who are not protected can correlation look for protection plans, starting October 1. He said insurance agencies can't decline to blanket Americans or charge them more on account of a prior condition.

Obama said health insurance affects the economic security of millions of America. He said health insurance is not a privilege, but a right, and he intends to keep it that way.

He accused a group of Republicans in Congress of "working hard to confuse people," and threatening to shut down the government if the group does not get its way on the issue.

In the Republican address Saturday, Representative Shelley Moore Capito said the health care law "is already raising costs, hurting jobs, and reducing access to the plans and the doctors" Americans like.

She said it is time for the Democratic-led Senate and the president to agree to delay the health care law, as the Republican-led House of Representatives has chosen to do in a bipartisan vote.