Video: Barack Obama: healthcare decision a 'victory for Americans' The President said: "The highest court in the land has now spoken. We will continue to implement this law and we'll work together to improve on it where we can. What we won't do - what the country can't afford to do - is re-fight the political battles of two years ago or go back to the way things were. With today's announcement, it's time for us to move forward. The law was Mr Obama's signature domestic policy achievement and the fulfilment of a promise he made as a presidential candidate in 2008. His opponent in this year's presidential election, Republican Mitt Romney, has promised to repeal it if he wins. Mr Obama said: "Whatever the politics, today's decision was a victory for people all over this country, whose lives will be more secure because of this law, and the Supreme Court's decision to uphold it," he said. It should be pretty clear by now that I didn't do this because it was good politics. I did it because I believed it was good for the country. I did it because I believed it was good for the American people.