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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. federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, was signed into law in 2010. The act aimed to provide affordable health insurance coverage for all Americans.
The history of health care reform in the United States has spanned many decades with health care reform having been the subject of political debate since the early part of the 20th century. Recent reforms remain an active political issue. Alternative reform proposals were offered by both of the major candidates in the 2008, 2016, and 2020 ...
The Affordable Health Care for America Act (or HR 3962) [1] was a bill that was crafted by the United States House of Representatives of the 111th United States Congress on October 29, 2009. The bill was sponsored by Representative Charles Rangel. At the encouragement of the Obama administration, the 111th Congress devoted much of its time to ...
The Affordable Care Act’s 2024 open enrollment period runs from Nov. 1 through Jan. 15, 2024, allowing people to apply for new health insurance coverage or make changes to their existing plan ...
Beginning Jan. 1, 2022, a new law will take effect that ends surprise medical bills for insured people receiving emergency medical care and other health services in the United States.
The Medicare for All Act (abbreviated M4A ), also known as the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act or United States National Health Care Act, is a bill first introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Representative John Conyers (D-MI) in 2003, with 38 co-sponsors. [1] [2] In 2019, the original 16-year-old proposal was ...
The act, S.4381, defines contraception as “any drug, device or biological product intended for use in the prevention of pregnancy, whether specifically intended to prevent pregnancy or for other ...