Barack Obama recalls epic battle for healthcare law in excerpt from memoir

Advance chapter released as ACA faces supreme court threat Ex-president details Republicans' norm-breaking attacks US politics - live coverage An advance chapter from Barack Obama's first memoir of his White House years, published on Monday by the New Yorker, takes readers inside the epic political battle behind the passage of the Affordable Care Act at the end of his first year of office. Related: Republicans closely resemble autocratic parties in Hungary and Turkey - study