“After a century of talk, decades of trying, and a year of bipartisan debate, our generation was the one that succeeded. We finally declared that in America, health care is not a privilege for a few, but a right for everybody,” he wrote.

Obama’s statement came as House Republicans were deciding whether the Affordable Care Act will be dismantled in favor of the President Donald Trump-backed American Health Care Act, which could strip millions of Americans of health insurance.