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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has two main goals: (1) to make health care coverage more available, affordable, and acceptable.

The Affordable Care Act: What's at Risk? - The Arc

Access to consistent and reliable healthcare is critical for individuals with IDD, and the ACA created much-needed reforms to health insurance, ...

Health Care Reform | AOTA

The ACA identifies 10 broad categories of services—including rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices, preventive and wellness services, and mental ...

10 Ways the ACA Has Improved Health Care in the Past Decade

The ACA has helped millions of Americans gain insurance coverage, saved thousands of lives, and strengthened the health care system. The law has ...

Affordability Advocacy Agenda | AHA - American Hospital Association

Advancing Affordability, Value, and Equity in Health Care Priorities for America's Hospitals and Health Systems · Making Health Care More Affordable · Improving ...

Affordable Care Act - Taxpayer Advocate Service - IRS

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes both tax-related and non-tax provisions for health care coverage and financial assistance options.

About the ACA - HHS.gov

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, referred to as the Affordable Care Act or “ACA” for short, is the comprehensive health care reform law enacted ...

Advocacy for Public Health - American Public Health Association

STAY INFORMED · Visit APHA's health reform pages for reports, analyses, fact sheets, APHA statements and other resources on the Affordable Care Act. · See APHA ...

Summary of the Affordable Care Act | KFF

This document summarizes the comprehensive 2010 health reform law, often called the Affordable Care Act or ACA, including changes made to it ...

The Affordable Care Act — and With It, Our Civil Rights — Are Under ...

People of color: The ACA makes important strides to address racial injustice in health care as well. It bars discrimination based on preexisting ...

Presidential election puts Affordable Care Act back in the bull's-eye

Under the ACA, enrollees are generally in the same pool regardless of their health status or preexisting conditions. This is done to control ...

Improving Health for All Americans - Obama White House

New investments in the Recovery Act, expanded through the Prevention and Public Health Fund in the Affordable Care Act, supported public-health initiatives that ...

Affordable Care Act Toolkit for Self-Advocates

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) made it easier to get health insurance for all Americans, including those of us with disabilities.

The Affordable Care Act - California Department of Insurance

What is the Affordable Care Act? Signed into law on March 23rd, 2010, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is also known as healthcare reform.

Get help applying & more | HealthCare.gov

About the Affordable Care Act · Regulatory and Policy Information · For ... Health Insurance Marketplace® is a registered trademark of the Department of ...

Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires covered entities to post notices of non-discrimination and availability of language assistance.

Affordable Care Act - Wikipedia

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and colloquially as Obamacare, is a landmark U.S. ...

Health Care | Representative Nancy Pelosi - House.gov

That is why House Democrats worked tirelessly with President Obama to enact the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – a landmark achievement that now stands alongside ...

The Affordable Care Act: What Disability Advocates Need to Know

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the disability community must work to ...

Public Law 111–148 111th Congress An Act

Entitled The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Be it enacted by ... advocates including those representing individuals with lim- ited English ...


Socialized medicine

Socialized medicine is a term used in the United States to describe and discuss systems of universal health care—medical and hospital care for all by means of government regulation of health care and subsidies derived from taxation.