Center on Budget and Policy Priorities July 18, 2024
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) gave millions of newly eligible people access to affordable, comprehensive health insurance. Undoing the ACA’s coverage expansions or undermining its consumer protections — let alone repealing the law — threatens to bring back serious challenges people used to face in accessing coverage.
Here’s a roundup of analyses showing how the ACA changed the health coverage landscape. It increased health coverage rates, established new protections for people with pre-existing conditions, made health benefits more affordable and comprehensive, and improved health and financial security for millions of people.
Before the ACA:
Tens of millions more people lacked coverage, and uninsured rates were nearly double current levels.
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