Fails to mention California is seeing rates jump 100%-123% because of the law.

Via NBC News:

Amid indications that the public has soured somewhat on his signature health care overhaul, President Barack Obama on Friday sought to highlight benefits of the law already in place and emphasize many of its forthcoming advantages.

“This is the way the law was designed to work. But since everyone’s saying how it’s not going to happen, I think it’s important for us to recognize and acknowledge that this is working the way it’s supposed to,” Obama said in California. “In states that are working hard to implement this law properly, it’s working for people — for middle-class families, for consumers.”

Obama’s renewed defense of the law he guided through Congress in 2009-10 comes after the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that 49 percent of Americans said the law – “Obamacare,” colloquially – was a bad idea. That was the highest number of people to express such a view of the law since the poll began tracking sentiment on that issue in 2009.

“You can listen to a bunch of political talk out there — negative ads and fear-mongering geared toward the next election — or, alternatively, you can look at what’s happening in states like California, right now,” Obama said.

The president was extra-sure to highlight the states he said had implemented the law “correctly.” That was an oblique reference to the many Republican-dominated states that had refused to begin setting up the subsidized health insurance exchanges and expanded Medicare programs set forth by the law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.