Obama's Obamacare solution: Expand the law

President Obama offered his prescription Thursday for how to fix Obamacare: Expand it.

In a major speech defending his Affordable Care Act just days before the law's fourth enrollment season starts, Obama laid out a list of measures he said would help expand coverage to the remaining 10 percent of people who still lack insurance. Most of them involve expanding parts of the law, such as convincing holdout states to accept its Medicaid expansion and increasing the subsidies for buying coverage.

"The problem is not that government is too involved in the process," Obama said, speaking at Miami-Dade College in Florida. "The problem is we have not reached everybody and pulled them in."

In past speeches about his healthcare law, Obama has touted its consumer protections and financial assistance for low- and middle-income Americans. But faced with spiking premiums and insurer exits from the marketplaces, the president used his speech Thursday to downplay its influence on the public and list some fixes.

Most people don't get marketplace coverage — just 10 million or so Americans who were previously uninsured, the president noted. And insurance premiums had increased dramatically before the law was passed. But when consumers find their insurance rates are rising, they like to blame him unfairly, Obama said.