Title: Affordable Care Act - Wikipedia
Headings: Affordable Care Act
Affordable Care Act
Contents
Provisions
Insurance regulations: individual policies
Individual mandate
Exchanges
Premium subsidies
Cost-sharing reduction subsidies
Risk management
Risk corridors
Reinsurance
Risk adjustment
Medicaid expansion
Medicare savings
Taxes
Medicare taxes
Excise taxes
SCHIP
Dependents
Employer mandate
Delivery system reforms
Hospital quality
Bundled payments
Accountable care organizations
Medicare drug benefit (Part D)
State waivers
Other insurance provisions
Nutrition labeling requirements
Legislative history
Individual mandate
Healthcare debate, 2008–10
Senate
House
Post-enactment
Impact
Coverage
Taxes
Insurance exchanges
Medicaid expansion
Insurance costs
Deductibles and co-payments
Health outcomes
Distributional impact
Federal deficit
CBO estimates of revenue and impact on deficit
Opinions on CBO projections
Employer mandate and part-time work
Hospitals
Economic consequences
Public opinion
Political aspects
"Obamacare"
Common misconceptions
"Death panels"
Members of Congress
Illegal immigrants
Exchange "death spiral"
"If you like your plan"
Criticism and opposition
Legal challenges
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
Contraception mandate
King v Burwell
House v. Price
United States House of Representatives v. Azar
California v. Texas
Risk corridors
Non-cooperation
Repeal efforts
2013 federal government shutdown
2017 repeal effort
Actions to hinder implementation
Socialism debate
Implementation
In popular culture
See also
References
Further reading
Preliminary CBO documents
CMS Estimates of the impact of P.L. 111-148
CMS Estimates of the impact of H.R. 3590
Senate Finance Committee meetings
External links
ACA text

Content: penalty enforcing individual mandate eliminated starting 2019
Citations
Public law
111–148
Statutes at Large
124 Stat. 119 through 124 Stat. 1025 (906 pages)
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as the "Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009" ( H.R. 3590) by Charles Rangel ( D – NY) on September 17, 2009
Committee consideration by Ways and Means
Passed the House on November 7, 2009 ( 220–215)
Passed the Senate as the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" on December 24, 2009 ( 60–39) with amendment
House agreed to Senate amendment on March 21, 2010 ( 219–212)
Signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010
Major amendments
Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011
Public Law 115-97 proposed as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
United States Supreme Court cases
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby
King v. Burwell
The Affordable Care Act ( ACA ), formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and colloquially known as 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. Together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 amendment, it represents the U.S. healthcare system 's most significant regulatory overhaul and expansion of coverage since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. The ACA's major provisions came into force in 2014. By 2016, the uninsured share of the population had roughly halved, with estimates ranging from 20 to 24 million additional people covered. The law also enacted a host of delivery system reforms intended to constrain healthcare costs and improve quality. After it went into effect, increases in overall healthcare spending slowed, including premiums for employer-based insurance plans. The increased coverage was due, roughly equally, to an expansion of Medicaid eligibility and to changes to individual insurance markets. Both received new spending, funded through a combination of new taxes and cuts to Medicare provider rates and Medicare Advantage.