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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.
With Democrats having lost a filibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate, but having already passed the Senate bill with 60 votes on December 24, the most viable option for the proponents of comprehensive reform was for the House to abandon its own health reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, and pass the Senate's bill, The ...
Now that President Barack Obama has signed the health care reform bill into law, coverage will reach 95% of all Americans, who will be able to buy health insurance in a "competitive, transparent ...
A 2016 study on Healthcare.gov health plans found a 24 percent increase in the percentage of ACA plans that lacked standard out-of-network coverage. [citation needed] The December spending bill delayed the onset of the "Cadillac tax" on expensive insurance plans by two years, until 2020. [46]
Introduced in the House as H.R. 1628 by Diane Black (R-TN) on March 20, 2017; Committee consideration by House Energy and Commerce Committee: passed as "Budget Reconciliation Legislative Recommendations Relating to Repeal and Replace of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" on March 9, 2017 (); House Ways and Means Committee: passed on March 9, 2017 as "Budget Reconciliation ...
The summary of the National Health Care Act as proposed in the 111th Congress (2009–2010) includes the following elements, among others: [10] Expands the Medicare program to provide all individuals residing in the 50 states, Washington, D.C., and territories of the United States with tax-funded health care that includes all medically necessary care.
At the end of 2009, each house of Congress passed its own health care reform bill, but neither house passed the other bill. The Senate bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, became the most viable avenue to reform following the death of Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy and his replacement by Republican Scott Brown.