• Affordable Care Act (ACA)

     

    The comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2010 (sometimes known as ACA, PPACA, or “Obamacare”).

    The law has 3 primary goals:

    1. Make affordable health insurance available to more people. The law provides consumers with subsidies (“premium tax credits”) that lower costs for households with incomes between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level.
    2. Expand the Medicaid program to cover all adults with income below 138% of the federal poverty level. (Not all states have expanded their Medicaid programs.)
    3. Support innovative medical care delivery methods designed to lower the costs of health care generally.

    Source www.healthcare.gov