STAT June 6, 2024
Tom Daschle, Kathleen G. Sebelius

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, (generally known as the ACA), was signed into law in 2010. It expanded access to affordable, quality health care, and today is helping 45 million people — the highest total on record — be covered by health insurance.

The law included long-overdue policy changes to ensure that Americans have access to recommended preventive care, which is critical to avoiding preventable illnesses and the health care spending associated with them. But the ACA’s provision requiring insurers to provide cost-free access to vaccines has not been fully implemented, leaving millions of Americans with the difficult choice between paying out-of-pocket or skipping recommended preventive care.

Vaccines are one of the greatest public health innovations of all...

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