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Goals Of The ACA

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The ACA is actually two acts that were signed into law in March of 2010, by President
Obama. The two acts are the Affordable Health Care for America Act and the Patient
Protection Act. The ACA is sometimes referred to as Obamacare. The ACA itself contains 10 titles, that are each packed with highly detailed sections, the actual law is approximately
1000 pages. The ACA is one of the greatest pieces of legislation pertaining to health care reform, since the establishment of Medicare in 1965.
The ACA has three primary goals:
 To provide affordable health insurance to more Americans, and to provide subsidies to help low income households pay for their insurance premiums.
 To expand the Medicaid programs, so that it includes more adult Americans

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