How the Affordable Care Act transformed our health-care system
CNBC December 29, 2019
Key Points
– The 900-page-plus bill aimed to curb swelling health-care costs, increase quality and flip more than 30 million Americans from uninsured to insured.
– What happened next, of course, didn’t go as planned.
– Here’s how the law succeeded and failed.
The Affordable Care Act has been the law of the land for close to a decade, and yet it can seem that we’ve barely settled into it.
Headline after headline warns its existence is in jeopardy. Many states refuse to implement its core parts. President Donald Trump has wished for it to explode. A central provision has been declared unconstitutional.
Former President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23,...