Obamacare

Examples of Obamacare in the following topics:

• Current Issues in Health Care

  • Current issues in the U.S. health care system largely revolve around the significant policy changes imposed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare), which attempts to provide health insurance coverage for all citizens.
  • Standards: Obamacare also closes loopholes regarding to quality standards, ensuring that insurance providers do not reduce what is provided to clients in an effort to cut costs.

• Health Care Policy

  • The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly called Obamacare (or the federal health care law), is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.
  • Together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, Obamacare represents the most significant regulatory overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.

• Gender Inequality in Health Care

  • Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (informally called "Obamacare"), passed under President Barack Obama in 2010, insurance companies would be prohibited from charging men and women differently.

• Promoting Public Welfare and Income Redistribution

  • This law is called the Affordable Care Act, but is more commonly known as Obamacare.

• Defining Health, Health Care, and Medical Care

  • At the time of this writing (2013), the Affordable Care Act (often referred to as 'Obamacare') will be coming into play shortly.

• Aging and Wealth

  • The act, commonly referred to as Obamacare, provides a public insurance option through the government to help drive down insurance costs.

• The Affordable Care Act

  • The act, which created the program known as Obamacare, represented the first significant overhaul of the American healthcare system since the passage of Medicaid in 1965.

• Conclusion: Populism Resurgent

  • The goals of Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as "Obamacare") were to provide all Americans with access to affordable health insurance, to require that everyone in the United States had some form of health insurance, and to lower the costs of healthcare.

• The Obama Administration

  • The goals of this Act (which came to be know as Obamacare) were to provide all Americans with access to affordable health insurance, to require that everyone in the United States had some form of health insurance, and to lower the costs of healthcare.

• Divided Government

  • Even at that time, some conservative activists and Tea Party-affiliated politicians were already calling on congressional Republicans to be willing to shut down the government in order to force congressional Democrats and the President to agree to deep cuts in spending and the repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as "Obamacare"), which had been signed into law only a few months earlier.