Affordable Care Act / Obamacare Concepts

Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy

by Adam Jentleson · 12 Jan 2021 · 400pp · 108,843 words

simple majority.”116 Republicans’ difficulty in securing a bare majority for major legislation was on full display in their quixotic quest to repeal the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. Despite campaigning on repeal for seven years, Republicans struggled to follow through once they controlled both chambers of Congress and the White House

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Helms and, 149 Republican Party and, 149–50 Abramowitz, Alan I., 131 ACA (Affordable Care Act), see Obamacare ADA (Americans for Democratic Action), 80 Adams, John Quincy, 32–33, 48, 49 Ad Age, 190 advice and consent, 199–200 Affordable Care Act (ACA), see Obamacare African Americans and election of 1960, 105 and New Deal programs, 72 and

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, Sarah, 216 Parkland, Florida, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, 20 Parliament, 56–57, 247 Parra, José, 155 party-unity score, 121 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts, see Obamacare patronage, 50 Patton (movie), 205 Paul, Rand, 138, 221 Pearson, Drew, 96 Pelosi, Nancy, 152, 204 Pence, Mike, 205, 234 Percy, Charles, 146 “petticoat

Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It

by John Abramson · 15 Dec 2022 · 362pp · 97,473 words

AND LIMITATIONS The current era of U.S. health-care reform began in 2010 with the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. The final product of the legislative battles provides important lessons about the limits of reform, even in the context of Democratic control of both houses

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), 121–22 See also Cochrane Collaboration; evidence-based medicine Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, 204 patents, pharmaceuticals, 95, 154 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010). See Obamacare pension fund managers, 188 Pfizer Bextra guilty plea, xxiv–xxv mRNA vaccine, xv–xvii, xix–xx Neurontin Publication Subcommittee, 34 Neurontin trial jury award

Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

by Matt Parker · 7 Mar 2019

smart as a kid in Year 7. In the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, his White House was trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, as it had been branded. When doing this through legislation proved harder than they seem to have expected, they turned to rounding. For while

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a meme passed around in 2015 when Obama’s Affordable Care Act was up and running, but not without teething problems (and the ACA Marketplace insurance plans don’t all cover dental work). An easy target for criticism was the cost of setting up Obamacare. A figure of $360 million was passed around as

Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy

by David Frum · 25 May 2020 · 319pp · 75,257 words

sign of the post-recession era’s ultra-polarization. The consequence has been the frustration of both parties’ highest hopes. The Democrats did enact the Affordable Care Act in 2010, but they have not been able to protect it from Republican sabotage at the federal and state level. Nor have they themselves clutched

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the program to their hearts. Through 2019, insurgent Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren criticized the Affordable Care Act almost as savagely as any Republican. They promised to replace the ACA with a wholly new approach to health care, a universal federally managed “Medicare

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providers. Instead, the insurance companies found it easier to squeeze patients, who were weak and disorganized, than providers, who were strong and well-organized. The Affordable Care Act disallowed some of the insurance companies’ worst practices—but without substituting any new player to do the job the insurance companies failed to do. The

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the Obamacare debate of 2010. Obamacare was attacked as “socialism.” Yet the people most responsive to these attacks—older voters—were themselves already enrolled (or looking forward soon to enrolling) in Medicare, a system much more socialistic than anything contemplated by the Affordable Care Act. In fact, a lot of the anger against the Affordable Care Act flowed

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from seniors’ and soon-to-be-seniors’ anxiety lest the Affordable Care Act cut into the funding for their socialized medicine. In other countries, the health-care system

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35 percent of people born between 1946 and 1960 described themselves as “conservative.” Then came the financial crisis, the presidency of Barack Obama, and the Affordable Care Act. The proportion of baby boomers who called themselves “angry at government” surged from 15 percent before 2008 to 26 percent after the financial crisis struck

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British National Health Service, like Canada’s Medicare, it is a defining aspect of what it means to belong to this particular national community. The Affordable Care Act was written without reference to that need for belonging. Maybe that is why the ACA remains so weak, so vulnerable to attack by state governments

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specific entry, please use your ebook reader’s search tools. Abadi, Haider al-, 40 abortion, 43, 123 abuse of power, 127 Adenauer, Konrad, 178 Affordable Care Act (ACA, 2010; “Obamacare”), 129–30, 134–36, 138, 140 Afghanistan, 41, 43, 45, 172 Africa, 108, 157, 166, 174 African Americans, 16, 80, 107, 117–18, 123

Poverty for Profit

by Anne Kim · 384pp · 112,825 words

1.2 percent, thanks to Medicare, while just 5 percent of children were uninsured, thanks to Medicaid.16 The Medicaid expansion included in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (“Obamacare”) saved an estimated 19,200 lives from 2014 to 2017, according to one landmark study, and reduced annual mortality rates for older adults by

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Aarrow Bail Bonds (Richmond, Virginia), 155–56, 299n14 Access Securepak, 178, 180, 310n176 Ace Cash Express, 1, 133 Adams and Associates, Inc., 92, 98 Affordable Care Act of 2010 (“Obamacare”), 103 Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 17–18, 35, 59–60 Alabama: Job Corps centers, 97; LIHTC tax credits allocated to, 202

J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2014

by J. K. Lasser · 5 Oct 2013 · 1,845pp · 567,850 words

a health FSA is $2,500. Employers may set a lower limit. The $2,500 limit was required by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (i.e., “Obamacare” health-care reform legislation). Plans that do not require the $2,500 limit are not qualifying cafeteria plans; all plan benefits are includible in

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you pay expenses online, the payment date shown on your online bank statement governs. - - - - - - - - - - Law Alert Deduction Threshold Increases Starting in 2013 Under the 2010 Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), the floor for deducting medical expenses increases for most taxpayers starting with 2013 returns. The floor, which has been 7.5% of adjusted gross income

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on Net Investment Income 28.1 Additional Medicare Taxes Take Effect in 2013 To help pay for health care reform, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act enacted two new taxes that can impact higher-income taxpayers starting in 2013. Depending on the types of income you have, you may be subject

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activities working interests in oil/gas wells and Passive activity deductions Passive equity-financed lending Passive income Passive interests Passive losses Patents Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010) Patronage dividends Pay. See also Salary or wage income (compensation) assignment of of government employees in foreign countries of Armed Forces personnel property received

The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches From the Forgotten America

by Sarah Kendzior · 24 Apr 2015 · 172pp · 48,747 words

Americans support repealing, defunding, or delaying President Obama’s health care law. These numbers decrease when the law is called by its name, the Affordable Care Act, instead of Obamacare. Seventy-two percent of Americans agree that there should not be a government shutdown. But our opinion does not matter. We are passive subjects

America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System

by Steven Brill · 5 Jan 2015 · 554pp · 167,247 words

Actually, on April 4, 2014, the morning of my surgery, it was already four days too late to sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. Besides, I already had decent insurance. But at least that dream was more on point with what was happening in my real life. The day

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in a journal that this person kept. There was none of that concern two days later, on March 23, 2010, when Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act in an elaborate East Room celebration. As the ceremony began, Vice President Biden said to the president—and into a mike that, unknown to him

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the day they missed their first deadline, DeParle issued this report on the White House blog: “Just over a month ago, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law.… The day of that signing the President made one thing clear—he expects his Administration to deliver the benefits of reform to the

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not to participate in any aspect of the new law. * * * *11. When I reached Chicos in early 2014, she declined to talk about whether the Affordable Care Act had helped her situation, saying that she had been made “uncomfortable” about being thrust into the limelight, adding “I have since come to realize how

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of today, August 1, 12.8 million Americans will benefit in $1.1 billion in rebates from insurance companies that were made possible by the Affordable Care Act.” Late in June, Gary Cohen became the fourth head in as many years of CCIIO, the center that had been demoted from an office. Cohen

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exchange all across Kentucky. A January report on the results would declare that “most respondents—even physicians and business owners—expressed little knowledge of the Affordable Care Act and its implications.” On top of that, the researchers reported that there was “suspicion” about the new law and a fear of “less choice,

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the much-publicized “official White House” Obamacare calendar. A July 23, 2013, report in The New York Times—another one focusing on Simas, his spreadsheets, and his “war rooms”—described it this way: “Royal blue and emblazoned with the White House seal, the ‘Official Affordable Care Act Enrollment Countdown’ is a paper calendar that

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personally spending an hour or two a day on Obamacare—obviously wanted everyone focused on getting everything done that needed to be done, task by task. So, I asked the White House press office to send me a copy of the “Official Affordable Care Act Enrollment Countdown.” That way I could see their real

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Sunday, October 20. He flew to Washington on October 21. That day, Obama offered what The New York Times called “an impassioned defense of the Affordable Care Act” in a Rose Garden statement, “acknowledging the technical failures of the HealthCare.gov website, but providing little new information about the problems with the online

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reported: President Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters for their health insurance under Obamacare, say experts, and the Obama administration has known that

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for at least three years. Four sources deeply involved in the Affordable Care Act tell NBC News that 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy

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hosted by comedian Zach Galifianakis, to push Obamacare to Galifianakis’s mass audience of young invincibles. Obama was game. The gig was planned for the following month, in the run-up to the March 31 deadline. “THE BEST DAY IN THE HISTORY OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT” On February 12, 2014, the same

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was likely to accelerate more as the overall enrollment deadline of March 31 approached. “Yesterday, politically, was the best day in the history of the Affordable Care Act,” journalist Mark Halperin said the next morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “They are now in a stronger position to get this implemented than they

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for the fact that Obamacare offered them a lot of preventive care for free, with no deductible. But if they did reach that deductible limit, it seemed a stretch to call a law requiring them to pay 27 percent of their income to comply with the mandate the “Affordable Care Act.” Yet the news

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did for buying airplane tickets. In fact, while travel agents have been largely pushed aside by travel websites, the Obamacare exchanges create more need for insurance agents. Beyond all that, does the Affordable Care Act really provide affordable care? Yes, for millions of Americans. But not for everyone. Millions of others, particularly in

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: Zeke Emanuel and the journal of a White House staff member. Emanuel also describes this debate in a book he wrote about Obamacare: Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System (New York: Public Affairs, 2014). 3 Predictably,

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Robert J. Gordon · 12 Jan 2016 · 1,104pp · 302,176 words

far the most expensive in the world while providing only partial coverage. On the eve of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, better known as Obamacare, 16 percent of U.S. citizens lacked health coverage, higher than the 12 percent who had lacked insurance in 1987.124 The

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networks and their apparent instability. Many people who were previously insured received notice that their longtime insurance policies did not meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act and were forced to shop for a new policy, often finding it difficult to locate a plan that included their previous family doctor. Stories abound

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are not covered at all.127 The complexity and restrictions of Obamacare contrast notably with the simplicity of Medicare and its single-payer system, from which most doctors and hospitals accept payments. In its effort to obtain passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the Obama administration did not attempt to base the

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of light, 119; on value of health and life expectancy, 242–44, 323 nursing schools, 230 nutrition. See diet; food Obama, Barack, 628–29 Obamacare (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; 2010), 493–95, 496–97 obesity, 345–47, 371, 469 O’Brien, Jeffrey, 479 occupations: from 1870 to 2009, 254–56; distribution of

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, 191; for rubber tires, 150; on software and business methods, 649; for telegraph, 177; for telephone, 181, 183, 204; for television, 413 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare; 2010), 493–95, 496–97 Patients’ Bill of Rights, 477 paved roads, 157–59 pawnbrokers, 292, 296 peddlers, 78, 88, 295 penicillin, 224, 324, 465

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

by Adam Tooze · 31 Jul 2018 · 1,066pp · 273,703 words

-making health-industrial complex—which at 17 percent accounted for twice the share of GDP attributable to the financial services industry—the priority of the Affordable Care Act was to cut costs. Likewise, the thrust of Obama’s foreign policy was retrenchment. In 2009 the White House was persuaded to put more troops

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the sweet scent of Obama’s second victory, the Right counterattacked. Their target was the great social policy initiative of Obama’s first term, the Affordable Care Act. The hostage they would take was the budget. III In 2011 the Tea Party caucus had come close to forcing the United States into fiscal

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. But once Clinton and the latest generation of Democratic Party technocrats got back on track, there was nothing that could not be fixed. Obama’s Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank were starters. What America needed was more of the same. Against this, what did the Republicans have to offer? Not only was

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the question was more pressing than ever. Since 2009 the congressional Republicans had been waging relentless political war, first against the stimulus, then the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Twice in 2011 and 2013 they had taken the debt ceiling hostage. Now, with control of both the presidency and Congress, what would

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they do? Obamacare was the scalp they wanted most and it ought to have been easy. As it had emerged from its congressional ordeal in March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was mangled and flawed. But for all their grim determination, in the critical

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Abramovich, Roman, 129 Ackermann, Josef, 187, 195, 313, 328, 415 adjustable rate mortgages, 70 Admati, Anat, 313 AfD (Alternative für Deutschland), 511–12, 534, 611 Affordable Care Act (ACA), 290, 465, 469, 581 Agenda 2010, 95 Agricultural Bank of China, 249 Ahern, Bertie, 109 AIG, 1, 150–52, 207 bailout of, 178–79

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relief, failure to provide, 281, 321 partisan hostility to, 278 Russian “reset” and, 488 stimulus package, passage of, 277–79, 280–82, 289–90 Obamacare. See Affordable Care Act Occupy Wall Street, 394–95, 459 oil and commodity price collapse of 2008, 222–23 of 2014, 503–4, 601 OMT. See Outright Monetary Transactions

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