Whereas 12.2 million Americans obtained health insurance through the marketplaces under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (in this resolution referred to as the Affordable Care Act ) in 2017 and are depending on that coverage; Whereas under the Affordable Care Act more than 20 million Americans gained health coverage; Whereas under the Affordable Care Act 105 million Americans with employer or individual market coverage no longer have a lifetime limit on their health coverage; Whereas under the Affordable Care Act an estimated 2.3 million young adults have benefitted from the provision allowing individuals to stay on their parents’ health coverage up to age 26; Whereas under the Affordable Care Act 137 million Americans have benefitted from the provision requiring health plans to cover preventive services at no extra cost to the consumer; Whereas under the Affordable Care Act 16.2 million more Americans have Medicaid coverage than before the law’s major coverage provisions took effect; Whereas nearly 30 percent of those gaining coverage through the law’s Medicaid expansion have a mental illness or substance use disorder; Whereas under the Affordable Care Act the share of hospital expenses attributable to uncompensated care fell by more than a quarter from 2013 to 2015, reducing hospital uncompensated care costs by an estimated $10.4 billion in 2015; Whereas under the Affordable Care Act nearly 12 million Medicare beneficiaries have saved more than $26.8 billion total, or an average of more than $2,000 per beneficiary, on prescription drugs; Whereas under the Affordable Care Act all health insurance in the individual market now covers ten essential health benefits, including mental health and substance use disorder services, prescription drugs, and maternity and newborn care; Whereas since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, the solvency of Medicare’s Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund has been extended 11 years, putting the program on more sound financial footing