Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Index / Policies Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Transcripts Lisa Jackson ...Act of], more than just the ACA [Affordable Care Act] . It was also no... ...Act of], more than just the ACA [ Affordable Care Act ] . It was also not going to walk awa... Frances Beinecke ...they had. I think we all know that the Affordable Care Act dominated. We wanted climate to be on ... Courtney Hight ...top priority. They're going to focus on ACA [Affordable Care Act] and not climate... ...They're going to focus on ACA [ Affordable Care Act ] and not climate. We need both... ...it more. They chose to focus on ACA , and they didn't choose to do both. ... Gina McCarthy ...with so much time spent on getting the Affordable Care Act through and getting the economi... Macon Phillips ...certain Democratic members around the Affordable Care Act , for example, or things like that. ... ...to do shit. We have the Recovery Act, Affordable Care Act , both getting spun up. There wa... ...third-party websites. When we did the Affordable Care Act , we worked with WebMD and, like, al... ...“If you hear anything fishy about the Affordable Care Act , let us know, and we will respond t... ...accessible. How can we argue for the Affordable Care Act in terms and on topics that are alread... ...communications person for the Affordable Care Act . And she did a fact-check video on th... Show more... Katie Fallon ...from the recovery bill to the ACA [Affordable Care Act]. What did it fee... ...from the recovery bill to the ACA [ Affordable Care Act ]. What did it feel like to be workin... ...a lot of wink, wink, nod, nod. With the ACA , there was a lot more uncertaint... ...almost exclusively, when it came to the ACA with Senator Schumer, was the additio... ...talking about the ACA and the sad death of the public option... ...was a moment when you realized that the ACA was actually going to pass, because i... ...the response to the financial crisis, ACA , around Democrats exclusively, bu... ...going to have to wear the cross of ACA fixes, and fixing Dodd-Frank, an... ...the fix, and the infrastructure for the ACA website fix, and how that was all goin... ...lifting. And then we did something on ACA that we weren't going to implemen... ...anyway, so it looked like a big give on ACA . Those were all negotiated in the ver... ...protecting, and iterating on the Affordable Care Act . I think that in the arc of history, ... Show more... Joe Solmonese ...hospitals, or some aspect of the Affordable Care Act , or the census, we were first tryin... ...So you could find things in the Affordable Care Act that were relevant to th... Martin Nesbitt ...that was their typical policy. The Affordable Care Act —it was written by Republicans. It wa... David Axelrod ...it. And the whole controversy around Obamacare , the Affordable Care Act, was a thir... ...whole controversy around Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act , was a third element that th... ...really ratchets up the ante on the Affordable Care Act .” The thing about the Affordabl... ...Care Act.” The thing about the Affordable Care Act was—which I assume is where you ar... ...true from the beginning. That's why the Affordable Care Act is called the Affordable Care Act... ...the Affordable Care Act is called the Affordable Care Act . Basically, there were fifteen percen... ...importance of the “Affordable” in the Affordable Care Act . In those first months of the ne... ...bring Republicans along. After all, the Affordable Care Act , in many ways, reflected some of th... ...majority, and ultimately we did for the Affordable Care Act . It didn't, by the way, necessaril... ...when they were going to vote on the Affordable Care Act , and he gave, again, an off-the-cuf... ...the Senate passed their version of the Affordable Care Act on December twenty-fourth, 2009. And i... ...were basically hanging crepe on the Affordable Care Act . Not him. He basically said, “We'r... ...We're going to go underground on the Affordable Care Act . And we're going to figure out how t... ...with us about the passage of the Affordable Care Act . Did you think that passage woul... ...by the Trump administration, the Affordable Care Act is supported by a majority o... ...long—it took years to implement the Affordable Care Act . So passage of it just as sprin... ...just after winter became spring and the Affordable Care Act became law, and that is the Deepwate... ...upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act . And I wanted to ask, from now you... ...reading of the decision said that the Affordable Care Act would live. Jim, who is an old... ...legacy. He obviously did things, the Affordable Care Act being principal among them, that ar... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Democrats Democrats go to the Supreme Court Supreme Court go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns