1. What is the primary goal of the ACA?
Answer: To increase access to affordable healthinsurance forthemillions of Americans without
coverage and make health insurancemore affordable for those already covered.
2. List
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1. What is the primary goal of the ACA?
Answer: To increase access to affordable healthinsurance forthemillions of Americans without
coverage and make health insurancemore affordable for those already covered.
2. List some of the provisions of the ACA
Answer:
Restructures the private health insurance market.
Sets minimum standards for health coverage.
Creates a mandate for most U.S.residents to obtain health insurance coverage.
Provides for the establishment by 2014 of state-based insurance marketplaces (previously
called exchanges) for the purchase of private health insurance.
3. How do families and individuals reduce the cost of purchasing coveragethrough the
insurance marketplaces?
Answer: Federal subsidies
4. Other provisions of the ACA
Answer:
Expands eligibility for Medicaid.
Amends the Medicare program in ways that are intended to reduce the growth inMedicare
spending.
Imposes an excise tax on insurance plans found to have high premiums.
Makes numerous other changes to the tax code, Medicare, Medicaid, the StatesChildren's
Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and other federal programs.
5. How is the ACA projected to have a significant impact on federal spendingand revenues?
Answer:
Spending to subsidize the purchase of health insurance coverage through the state health
insurance marketplaces.
Increased outlays for the expansion of the Medicaid program.
Numerous mandatory appropriations to fund temporary programs to increase access and
funding for targeted groups.
Provide funding to states to plan and establish health insurance marketplaces.
Support many other research and demonstration programs and activities.
6. What are the costs of spending public and health insurance coverage and other spending's
offset by?
Answer: Revenues from new taxes and fees, and by savingsfrom payment and health care
delivery system reforms designed to reduce spendingon Medicare and other federal health care
programs
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