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The Affordable Care Act (ACA), formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and informally 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.
On December 24, 2009, the Senate passed an alternative health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590). [2] In 2010, the House abandoned its reform bill in favor of amending the Senate bill (via the reconciliation process) in the form of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often shortened to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or nicknamed Obamacare, is a United States federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.
A January 9, 2017 Congressional Research Service report entitled "Legislative Actions to Repeal, Defund, or Delay the Affordable Care Act," noted that since ACA was passed in 2010, Congress has been deeply divided over the ACA. Lawmakers opposed to specific provisions in the ACA or the entire law have repeatedly debated its implementation and ...
In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the ACA (also known as Obamacare) into law.This marked an overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system. Before the ACA, many people were uninsured due to ...
Biden is proposing changes to the 2010 Affordable Care Act that would make more people eligible for premium tax credits to buy an ACA marketplace plan. Biden, joined by Obama, proposes tax credit ...
Reforms have often been proposed but have rarely been accomplished. In 2010, landmark reform was passed through two federal statutes: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), signed March 23, 2010, [1] [2] and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 , which amended the PPACA and became law on March 30, 2010.
The report estimates that the House-passed American Health Care Act of 2017 would increase number of uninsured Americans by 23 million.