Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Index / Policies Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Transcripts Pete Rouse ...we communicated the stimulus and the Affordable Care Act [ACA] was not particularly effective... ...stimulus and the Affordable Care Act [ ACA ] was not particularly effective. Ther... ...seats in the House because of Affordable Care Act , and stimulus, and big-spendin... ...next thing. You're trying to implement Affordable Care Act and fix the website. So it's alway... ...and Consumer Protection Act], stimulus, Affordable Care Act . Why, in the House, are we forcin... ...reaction and the public reaction to the Affordable Care Act . All of that stuff, we would hav... ...leadership, saying, “Look, on the Affordable Care Act , probably forty percent of what yo... ...2009, the Senate passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act sixty votes to thirty-nine votes, wit... ...you a coherent explanation of what the Affordable Care Act did? I bet you not many of them. The... ...overseeing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act . In April of 2010, the New York Time... ...among his responsibilities, yeah. The Affordable Care Act included a tax on high-cost healt... ...and everything will be fine with the Affordable Care Act ,” we probably would have been happy t... ...before you get to Dodd-Frank and ACA and all this other stuff. A lot wa... ...upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act . Can I ask: From your perspective i... ...not Deferred Action and the DREAMers or Affordable Care Act , it's Iraq or it's something else. S... ...Shutting down the government over the Affordable Care Act —here, it was the Tea Party generate... ...they didn't get anything for this. The Affordable Care Act didn't get suspended or repealed, o... Show more... Martha Kanter ...two billion, and it was pushed into the Obamacare [Affordable Care] Act, and twelv... ...through the education provisions of the Affordable Care Act . What obstacles in particular were yo... ...over the final version of the Affordable Care Act . What would have been possible i... ...called the education provisions of the Affordable Care Act “one of the most significan... ...GI Bill.” One of the things that the Affordable Care Act did was expand the Pell Grant progra... ...your duties as undersecretary. When the Affordable Care Act passed, did you have to build a... Show more... Arne Duncan ...against the president. So you had Obamacare [Affordable Care Act], and from that... ...the president. So you had Obamacare [ Affordable Care Act ], and from that, with Common Core, yo... ...Common Core, you had—then it became the Obamacare . Things that initially had been mor... Shailagh Murray ...and they were launching what became Obamacare [Affordable Care Act, ACA... ...were launching what became Obamacare [ Affordable Care Act , ACA] negotiations. And it was al... ...became Obamacare [Affordable Care Act, ACA ] negotiations. And it was al... ...Between Two Ferns early on during the Obamacare [Affordable Care Act, ACA] launch—thos... ...Ferns early on during the Obamacare [ Affordable Care Act , ACA] launch—those are often describe... ...the Obamacare [Affordable Care Act, ACA ] launch—those are often described a... ...You saw glimmers of this with the ACA legislative battle, where a handful o... ...rules, of course, coming from the Affordable Care Act healthcare legislation. I've read tha... ...as a result of that provision in the ACA —I think go to a legitimate question... ...And that had been this big reaction to Obamacare and the midterms, and it's jus... ...Democrats faced the debacle over the Affordable Care Act and worries about the midterm election... ...that had been created or funded by the ACA . In other places, that was ports, lik... ...this gigantic recovery package or the Affordable Care Act . People just couldn't—they weren'... ...of these really tough policy—well, like Obamacare [Affordable Care Act, ACA], fo... ...tough policy—well, like Obamacare [ Affordable Care Act , ACA], for instance. Back to the poin... ...like Obamacare [Affordable Care Act, ACA ], for instance. Back to the poin... ...v. Burwell. The court ruled that the Affordable Care Act 's tax credits, which were necessary t... ...decision would defuse opposition to the Affordable Care Act ? No [laughs]. No. It was not ... ...not a legal—people's opposition to the Affordable Care Act had nothing to do with its lega... ...changing the consciousness around the Affordable Care Act , and that was smart because it didn'... ...trying to leave the strongest possible Affordable Care Act in place on our way out the door... ...the communication strategy around the ACA at all? It did, yeah. I guess it did... ...that we didn't want to convey that the Affordable Care Act was all that was needed or was the en... ...final stretch for him to talk about the Affordable Care Act more, and the healthcare, and where w... ...really, in many respects, the core of Obamacare in terms of meeting the greatest need... ...the severe restraints around improving Obamacare that were, at that point, just part o... ...that in—where Obama talked about the Affordable Care Act 's first phase of existence and th... ...folks, around the inadequacies of the ACA , and we didn't dispute thos... ...allowed us to probably talk about the ACA more realistically and honestly, bu... ...next day, after the court ruled on the Affordable Care Act , on June sixth, 2015, the court uphel... Show more... Nancy-Ann DeParle ...that we looked to when we looked at the Affordable Care Act [ACA] and how to set that up. And it'... ...we looked at the Affordable Care Act [ ACA ] and how to set that up. And it's tru... ...that, were very relevant to the way the Affordable Care Act marketplaces were set up. But in fact... ...exhausting process of driving the Affordable Care Act to fruition. And it was those storie... ...way, nothing like what happened in the Affordable Care Act . But we were going to be involved i... ...bill, and how they differed from the Affordable Care Act , and basically concluded that, really... ...level, made a difference in getting the Affordable Care Act done. I think women tend to be a littl... ...especially now, ten years after the Affordable Care Act was enacted, after ten years of wha... ...Republicans and other opponents of the ACA were never committed to helping mak... ...predictable from someone for whom the Affordable Care Act is like their baby, in a way—but I d... ...policies that we originally had in the Affordable Care Act , or just strengthening them in som... ...got sick again. Thank goodness for the Affordable Care Act , because she was able to ge... ...about the implementation phase of the Affordable Care Act . Did you think that the passage of th... ...when you passed a massive bill like the Affordable Care Act —my experience was the Balanced Budge... ...thing. So what happened was, after the Affordable Care Act passed, remember that Rahm and I ha... ...me right away—saying, “Because of the Affordable Care Act —” I don't think they were then callin... ...I don't think they were then calling it Obamacare “—thanks to the Affordable Care Act, w... ...calling it Obamacare “—thanks to the Affordable Care Act , we have to raise to your premiums... ...letters without warning us, blaming the Affordable Care Act for what they're doing. But as a polic... ...upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act . What do you remember about th... ...middle class, and in what ways was the ACA 's survival of legal challeng... ...to move again. So if they had lost the Affordable Care Act , they lost the protections gaine... ...initial phase of implementation of the Affordable Care Act , he told you that he might only hav... ...during the time we were working on the Affordable Care Act , and he and Phil Schiliro and I woul... ...the basis that we had just passed the Affordable Care Act , which had massive reductions i... ...the temperature on things like the Affordable Care Act , which had become so negative t... Show more... Wilma Liebman ...really was, I believe, the focus on the Affordable Care Act , which, of course, was the legislativ... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Financial Crisis and the Economy Financial Crisis and the Economy go to the Healthcare Healthcare go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Financial Reform and Regulation Financial Reform and Regulation go to the East Wing East Wing