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The ACA and Health Equity


The Potential of the ACA to Reduce Health Disparities - NCBI

Three speakers at the workshop discussed various aspects of these provisions and their potential to reduce differences in health outcomes.

Fact Sheet: Celebrating the Affordable Care Act - HHS.gov

Since its enactment on March 23, 2010, the Affordable Care Act has led to an historic advancement of health equity in the United States. This ...

Reducing Disparities In Health Care Coverage And Access Under ...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has dramatically improved health insurance coverage across the US and reduced disparities in who can access that coverage.

How ACA Narrowed Racial Ethnic Disparities Access to Health Care

The ACA has led to historic improvements in access to care for black and Hispanic adults in the U.S., with Medicaid a significant driver in ...

The Affordable Care Act: implications for health-care equity - PubMed

Inequalities in medical care are endemic in the USA. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed in 2010 and fully implemented in 2014, ...

The ACA's Impact On Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Health ...

In this article we provide new evidence on how the ACA has affected insurance coverage for different racial/ethnic groups.

Health equity | CMS

After substantially increasing Affordable Care Act Marketplace outreach and education, and with the American Rescue Plan's enhanced and expanded ...

Advancing Health Equity Under the ACA | Commonwealth Fund

Insurers could play a key role in advancing health equity and reducing health disparities by using — and exceeding — the requirements of the ...

Effects of the ACA Medicaid Expansion on Racial Disparities ... - KFF

The disparate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on people of color have exposed and compounded underlying racial/ethnic disparities in health ...

Affordable Care Act (ACA) Anniversary - HHS.gov

Since its enactment on March 23, 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has led to an historic advancement of health coverage and equity in the United States.

The Affordable Care Act: implications for health-care equity

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed in 2010 and fully implemented in 2014, was intended to expand coverage and bring about a new era of health-care access.

The Affordable Care Act has significantly reduced racial disparities ...

The Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010 under former President Barack Obama, has expanded health insurance coverage across the U.S. and ...

Medicaid Efforts to Address Racial Health Disparities - KFF

How can Medicaid eligibility policies mitigate racial disparities in coverage? Adoption of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion ...

Achieving Health Equity via the Affordable Care Act

The Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities has been fostering dialogue on racial and ethnic disparities in ...

The Potential and Realized Impact of the Affordable Care Act on ...

Arriving at its 10th anniversary, there is significant evidence that the ACA has indeed reduced social disparities in some key health care ...

3 The ACA and Health Equity - The National Academies Press

As defined under the ACA, a health home provides comprehensive care management, care coordination and health promotion, comprehensive transitional care, patient ...

Why Health Equity Matters in an Era of Health Care Transformation

Under the ACA, insurers participating in the federal exchanges are required to reward health care providers for programs that reduce health ...

CMS Framework for Health Equity

The CMS Office of Minority Health has strong health equity priorities to reduce disparities in health care for minority communities and ...

How the ACA Addressed Health Equity and What Repeal Would Mean

The individual mandate, along with health care marketplaces and the subsidies for low-income individuals, would be repealed in favor of people ...

Health Care Equity | The Joint Commission

State-of-the-art health care equity accreditation standards, which are now a National Patient Safety Goal, help you put patients at the heart of everything you ...