HOW PRESIDENT OBAMA CELEBRATES 14 YEARS OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (ACA), NATIONAL MINORITY HEALTH MONTH! (1612 hits)
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[Fourteen] years ago, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law. As President Obama said in a statement, thanks to the ACA “more than 21 million Americans now have access to quality, affordable health care. Today, young people are staying on their parents’ plans until they’re 26. Americans with pre-existing conditions are no longer being denied coverage. Seniors and people with disabilities are paying less for prescription drugs. And Americans everywhere are switching jobs and starting their own businesses without worrying about losing their insurance.”
The story of the Affordable Care Act is one that will be featured in the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center, where visitors will be able to hear directly from some of the Obama Administration alumni who made the law possible.
[Recently], we sat down with five Obama Alumni who are working to advance health care coverage in their communities: https://www.obama.org/stories/taking-up-th... Through their work physicians, counselors, organizers, and advocates, they embody all the ways alumni of the Obama Administration have picked up the baton and continued to carry progress forward.
[] Incite, at Columbia University also released a new set of 26 interviews the Affordable Care Act. They feature administration alumni, congressional staff, advocates, and real people offering behind the scenes perspectives on the law’s passage and impact.
It includes reflections from people like Nancy-Ann DeParle, who headed the White House Office of Health Care Reform.
