Weekly line: What the ACA has—and hasn’t—accomplished in the past 10 years
Advisory Board March 20, 2020
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) turns 10 years old on Monday. To celebrate the law’s “tin anniversary,” researchers and experts are looking at ways the ACA has improved the U.S. health system—and areas where the ACA has fallen short. And, with a looming legal challenge, many are wondering whether the health reform law will survive another year.
ACA spurs major declines in the US uninsured rate, but progress has started to reverse
The most significant change the United States has seen because of the ACA is a drastic decline in the number of Americans without health insurance.
The ACA expanded Americans’ access to health insurance in four notable ways: creating the federal and state insurance exchanges and subsidies to help...