Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Index / Policies Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Transcripts Cass Sunstein ...Act] legislation, as well as the Affordable Care Act , and he really wanted us to d... ...very effective in multiple ways. The Affordable Care Act shows an influence from behaviora... ...about the implementation phase of the Affordable Care Act . The administration has stressed th... ...early deliverables in implementing the Affordable Care Act . I wanted to ask you how important i... ...of expenses in a year, that part of the Affordable Care Act that says there can be no annual limit... ...never met. There are other parts of the Affordable Care Act , including setting up exchanges suc... ...want to make the human promise of the Affordable Care Act real as soon as we can, not because o... ...key figure behind the enactment of the Affordable Care Act —she and I became extremely clos... ...record in court. The legal trouble the Affordable Care Act got into was constitutional trouble... ...first Supreme Court ruling about the Affordable Care Act in June of 2012. When the Supreme Cour... ...change the approach to implementing the ACA in your memory? No. It caused ... ...on what I was reading was that the Affordable Care Act had been struck down. They got i... ...time, in March of 2010? When the Affordable Care Act was passed, where were you when tha... ...everybody knows your name. With the Affordable Care Act team, they were friends and colleagues... ...I had my assistant print out the entire Affordable Care Act and bring the big statute, which ha... Show more... Sheila Bair ...they just try to undo it. Look at with Obamacare [Affordable Care Act]. Look a... ...to undo it. Look at with Obamacare [ Affordable Care Act ]. Look at Dodd-Frank [Wall Stree... Jon Favreau ...to not upset the applecart too much on ACA [Affordable Care Act] because we neede... ...upset the applecart too much on ACA [ Affordable Care Act ] because we needed every Democrat... ...Democrats. Once we passed Recovery and ACA and it was fairly obvious we weren'... ...No, you probably don't. We passed the Affordable Care Act . When did the first benefits of th... ...Act. When did the first benefits of the Affordable Care Act come? Four, five years. It become... ...upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act for the first time. Do you remembe... ...gave in the Rose Garden, he touted the Affordable Care Act 's “commonsense protections fo... ...had long been making the case for the Affordable Care Act by pointing to its importance fo... ...the president wanted to talk about the Affordable Care Act , or did it just drive home tha... ...of the Supreme Court's upholding of the Affordable Care Act in the summer of 2012. The presiden... ...might diffuse opposition to the Affordable Care Act ? I don't remember specifically, bu... ...be hearing about challenges to the Affordable Care Act after that [laughs]. That is safe t... ...still so proud of what we did on the Affordable Care Act , what we did with a lot of th... Show more... Betsey Stevenson ...I don't know how we could've done the ACA differently, but I do wonder i... Diane Johnson ...the affordable healthcare program [ Affordable Care Act ] really helped people to connect th... Byron Auguste ...actions, and there was obviously the ACA [Affordable Care Act]. But there was—s... ...and there was obviously the ACA [ Affordable Care Act ]. But there was—so I got to know th... Elizabeth Fowler ...understanding the work you did on the Affordable Care Act [ACA] and in the Obama administration... ...you did on the Affordable Care Act [ ACA ] and in the Obama administration. I'v... ...sort of preview for working on the ACA , I think. You also worked fo... ...the Hill for the negotiations over the Affordable Care Act ? Yeah, I think absolutely. You can'... ...regulation. The proposal, the Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act, looke... ...The proposal, the Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act , looked more—it was probably to th... ...process of drafting and negotiating the Affordable Care Act , did you try to push back on some o... ...one thing to keep in mind is that the ACA is a step along the way. We're no... ...I mean, I think we're glad that the ACA is there as a safety net, particularl... ...don't think that was possible with the ACA . We were not going to get Republican... ...Silver, Gold, Platinum plans in the Obamacare exchanges, sixty percent, sevent... ...2009, the Senate passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act sixty to thirty-nine. And i... ...is unnecessarily complicated. The ACA was a complicated bill building on ... ...you even explain what existed before Obamacare ? It's complicated then [laughs], s... ...average citizen. But also, I think ACA showed us that you have to think abou... ...So I think maybe the lesson from the ACA and what's happened since is that yo... ...moved forward, opposition to the Affordable Care Act might diminish a bit or be diffused b... ...had for the Republican approach to the ACA . Sort of like, “We opposed it, thi... ...do in terms of implementation of the Affordable Care Act ? It's really trying to set up th... ...cap on—the elimination of the caps? ACA said no more caps on coverage on a... ...I would say one of the lessons from the ACA —we put so much time and energy int... ...population in a single program. The Affordable Care Act , which changed healthcare across th... ...shortly after the passage of the Affordable Care Act . Do you think not having a centra... ...every agency that touched a part of the Affordable Care Act to try to coordinate that effort. ... ...the policy, believe it or not, in the ACA . And one of them was this concept o... ...upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act 's individual mandate. Were you in th... ...that we did make progress, that the ACA was just one step in that history... Show more... Tom Frieden ...people's health. Now, when the Affordable Care Act came along, there was a preventio... ...on getting coverage up with the Affordable Care Act . But as a public health person, m... ...of concern about enrollments in the Affordable Care Act competing with public healt... Zeke Emanuel ...although ultimately putting it in the ACA [Affordable Care Act]. You know, ther... ...ultimately putting it in the ACA [ Affordable Care Act ]. You know, there are some reall... ...teams that were working on the ACA had learned, or were fighting tha... ...why it had to be permitted in the ACA and scratching your head. On the othe... ...the AMA issued letters endorsing the Affordable Care Act and saying how important it was. S... ...part of that explanation has to be: the Affordable Care Act changed things, different paymen... ...one of the lesser-sung upshots of the Affordable Care Act . The irony is, we obviously don't hav... ...grasping at anything to shoot down the Affordable Care Act , and this was just one of man... ...ridiculous attacks brought against the Affordable Care Act . I think in this day and age, trut... ...believes there are death panels in the Affordable Care Act . Why do you think it's so hard t... ...deck and a good explanation of the Affordable Care Act , how it was going to make thing... ...things, go to churches and explain the Affordable Care Act , why it was a good thing. We did no... ...rhetorical armamentarium to explain the Affordable Care Act , to say why it was good, those peopl... ...not scripted but critical to saving the Affordable Care Act from its multiple near-deat... ...to pass legislation and get the ACA enacted, and everyone was pessimisti... ...after Scott Brown, it was, like, the ACA is dead. We're never going to have it... ...timed items that, again, saved the Affordable Care Act from a near-death experience. I woul... ...She doesn't get enough credit for the ACA , I think. Her, “Alright, all thre... ...for America. In the context of the Affordable Care Act , one of the things you wrote was tha... ...the things today, ten years after the Affordable Care Act , six years after the exchanges wen... ...want to ask you about one of the non- ACA activities, endeavors, undertakings i... ...on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act , you said if the president were to wi... ...making some rank mistakes about the Affordable Care Act . But I think in the end, the righ... ...come up and thank me for passing the ACA and getting someone they know o... ...got a heart transplant because of the ACA . There's nothing, nothing, mor... Show more... 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