Factile- Affordable Care Act (Kieu)

A comprehensive healthcare reform law enacted in March 2010 aimed at expanding healthcare access, reducing costs, and improving healthcare quality.

Affordable Care Act

A federal program that provides health insurance to individuals over age 65 or those with certain disabilities.

Medicare

The approximate amount spent on healthcare each year in the United States.

$3.6 trillion

A program that covers uninsured children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid.

Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

The percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) the United States spends on healthcare each year.

18%

A system that delivers healthcare to many American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Indian Health Service

A common nickname for the Affordable Care Act.

Obamacare

The age until which young adults may stay on their parents' insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act.

Age 26

A term meaning insurance companies cannot exclude individuals with pre-existing conditions.

Guaranteed issue

The number of full-time equivalent employees above which an employer must offer health insurance.

50 employees

Type of services mandated by the ACA to be provided for free.

Preventive services

Percentage of the Federal Poverty Level below which individuals may qualify for insurance via Medicaid expansion.

133% FPL

Region of the country where few states have expanded Medicaid.

The south or the southeast

Group of adults who experienced the most coverage gains under Medicaid expansion.

Childless adults

Types of services covered by Medicare but not expanded under the ACA.

Long-term care services

Number of years documented immigrants are ineligible for Medicare after arriving in the U.S.

5 years

Part of the ACA that required everyone to have health insurance or pay a tax penalty.

Individual mandate

The website where most people purchase marketplace coverage.

Healthcare.gov

The year when the marketplaces and Medicaid expansion first offered coverage.

2014

Percentage of the Federal Poverty Level below which individuals are ineligible for marketplace subsidies.

100% FPL

Levels that allow marketplace consumers to compare similar insurance plans, categorized as Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum.

Metal tiers

The year the Supreme Court ruled that Medicaid expansion was optional for states.

2012

Provision of the ACA removed by an act of U.S. Congress in 2017.

The individual mandate

Type of stakeholder that challenged and won the ability to refuse coverage for contraception included in the ACA.

Religious organizations

Healthcare plan that passed the U.S. House but failed by one vote in the U.S. Senate in 2017.

American Health Care Act (AHCA)

Most recent states to opt into Medicaid expansion.

North Carolina and South Dakota

U.S. Senator whose thumbs-down 'No' vote was the deciding vote in an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Senator John McCain

The government program that oversees healthcare coverage provided through Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and the Marketplace.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Percentage of premature deaths attributed to healthcare services.

10%

The financial support provided by the Federal Government to State governments to boost Medicaid Expansion enrollment.

Incentives (or subsidies)

Percentage of the Federal Poverty Level below which the American Rescue Plan Act reduced premium costs to $0.

150% FPL

State whose 2006 healthcare reform law served as the model for the Affordable Care Act.

Massachusetts