Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Jim Houser and Helen Dally

...a small business owner who favored the Affordable Care Act , Mr. Houser participated in ...
...with President Obama promoting the ACA . And in 2011, he was in the firs...
...observed the importance of the ACA to Mr. Houser and his business. Ji...
...Obama's healthcare plan. And after the ACA became law, Mr. Houser continued to b...
...campaign in 2010 to “reintroduce” the ACA , and, as I mentioned, was sittin...

...spoke to the media in support of the ACA from the steps of the Supreme Court o...
...to confirm the constitutionality of the ACA . Because she was twenty-two at th...
...at the time of the passage of the ACA , Ms. Dally is also an example of ho...
...were able to gain health coverage the ACA extended to people twenty-six an...
...and exchange that was part of the ACA , in fact. And it was something th...
...to campaign for what became the ACA . The various members of ou...
...that was growing, that became the ACA , and to talk about healthcare an...
...there and make a presentation about the ACA . Like you said, I testified before ...
...for Cover Oregon, which was our ACA state affiliate. Then, when that wa...
...a little bit forward now to the ACA actually passing. Both of you, what wa...
...not done. But I always considered the ACA —I think Obama called it a starte...
...to dispute or refute all of the anti- ACA propaganda that had come out. Ther...
...next step and the next step with the ACA —suddenly here we are, ten years later...
...and we're lucky to still have the ACA , except for Senator McCain'...
...a huge embarrassment. But when the ACA passed, do you remember the shop havin...
...to change or not change because of the ACA . After the ACA passes, you still ar...
...change because of the ACA. After the ACA passes, you still are politicall...
...I assume, to try and help build on the ACA in the way that you talked abou...
...healthcare on how to both implement the ACA and how to look forward to the nex...
...a speech and that it had to do with the ACA . I did not know where it was going t...
...impacts small business, how the ACA has or will be impacting our business...
...that went building out, based on the ACA 's incentives for the states to d...
...what degree healthcare reform and the ACA had caught on in the general public, a...
...benefiting or would benefit from the ACA . Helen, did you attend as well? ...
...asked was, “Do you still support the ACA ?” I said, “Absolutely.” [Laughs] Th...
...and we've barely managed to keep the ACA alive without making the changes tha...

Dennis Van Roekel

...involvement in legislation in that one, Affordable Care Act , than I think any other policy passe...
...and offer our full support for the Affordable Care Act if these components are in there?” W...
...to hash out their concerns about the Obamacare , if we can call it that. You mentione...
...for a public option as part of Obamacare . Was that a major part of tha...
...the legislation, how you wanted Obamacare structured, especially differentiate...

...in general. At this meeting around Obamacare , you had all these unions comin...
...when they set up that meeting about the Affordable Care Act , there was never a question abou...
...And, actually, what we did with the Affordable Care Act —say, Let's put this on the table an...

Donald Molloy

...was working closely with Baucus on the Affordable Care Act at the time. Anyway, that's beside th...
...six years ago. It was about all of the Affordable Care Act . And we had a huge bunch of people ou...
...that, as did President Carter. Is the Affordable Care Act a legacy? Yes, I think it touches on a...

Raffi Freedman-Gurspan

...as well and executive action. The Affordable Care Act was also rolling out in this time o...
...pivotal moment, and especially when the ACA [Affordable Care Act] came out, that i...
...moment, and especially when the ACA [ Affordable Care Act ] came out, that it had such an impac...
...one of the most popular aspects of the ACA for people my age at the time wa...
...for inclusion in regulations around the Obamacare , Affordable Care Act...

...in regulations around the Obamacare, Affordable Care Act , anti-discrimination regulations, an...
...orientation discrimination under the ACA . Now we have it, but back then, w...
...healthcare should be covered per the Affordable Care Act . Arguably Andy laid the groundwork fo...

Harold Varmus

...for one brief mention—talk about ACA [Affordable Care Act], but it loom...
...for one brief mention—talk about ACA [ Affordable Care Act ], but it looms large. So there ar...

Vivek Murthy

...to actually what got passed through ACA [Affordable Care Act]—at that time, di...
...Care Act]—at that time, did the ACA go as far as you had hoped when yo...
...which was created through the Affordable Care Act , was a really important body tha...
...what were you trying to achieve? The Affordable Care Act had created something that we had neve...
...was a very high likelihood that the Affordable Care Act —the law we had all worked so hard t...

...law that had just been passed, the Affordable Care Act . Did you have the sense—because yo...
...from, first, your active campaign for ACA , and secondly—and trivially—for ...

Barney Frank

...base on which to build. The success of Obamacare [Affordable Care Act] has changed th...
...to build. The success of Obamacare [ Affordable Care Act ] has changed the landscape, so we'r...

Jon Carson

...as far as policy goes. I didn't work on ACA [Affordable Care Act], but one of th...
...as policy goes. I didn't work on ACA [ Affordable Care Act ], but one of the reasons it passed i...
...slow things down so they could get the Affordable Care Act passed was taking everything over. The...
...deep in the throes of trying to get the Affordable Care Act passed, so they just didn't want to d...
...we weren't making any progress on. The Affordable Care Act had gotten passed. Dodd-Frank [Wal...

...the moment that this was happening, the Affordable Care Act had been passed just a few week...
...about—you know, what did it take to get ACA done? At the very end, we just had t...
...mad so we'd lose their vote on ACA . It's interesting, too, becaus...
...remember, this was the period where the Affordable Care Act was not seen as this generationa...
...There was the launching of the Affordable Care Act [laughs], and OFA played a pretty bi...
...And then we worked pretty heavily on ACA enrollment. All of that came togethe...
...we can be doing. We can still be doing ACA education, even if people can't sign u...
...for about five months during the ACA push. It sounds, too, like you wer...
...there was a unity of purpose around the ACA enrollment. I would really giv...

Ken Salazar

...hard to try to get the health—the ACA [Affordable Care Act] done. I did th...
...hard to try to get the health—the ACA [ Affordable Care Act ] done. I did the same thing o...
...could get done, as hard as it was. The ACA , the healthcare bill, passed on ...
...case. I think that the battle over the ACA became so high pitched and partisa...
...lot. There were often times during the ACA dialogue where Joe Biden and I would b...

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