Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Index / Policies Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Transcripts Michelle Miller ...that you were doing? Obviously, the ACA [Affordable Care Act] was big on th... ...you were doing? Obviously, the ACA [ Affordable Care Act ] was big on the agenda, and I kno... Rohit Kumar ...in the House. Ultimately, when the Affordable Care Act [ACA] passes, thirtysomething Democrat... ...when the Affordable Care Act [ ACA ] passes, thirtysomething Democrat... ...at that point had more to do about the Affordable Care Act than anything else. The fact that eve... ...blessing, to go scoop up. The Affordable Care Act is the next bill I'd like to ask yo... ...the leader's office when it came to the ACA ? On the ACA, I sort of had th... ...when it came to the ACA? On the ACA , I sort of had the second chair o... ...the lead policy advisor on all things Affordable Care Act , and I played sort of a supportin... ...the time, as this was happening—and the Affordable Care Act was deeply unpopular as all this i... ...still a little bit talking about the Affordable Care Act . And yet, they did it—all of them. Sh... ...except for one thing: she voted for the Affordable Care Act . Again, at the time she did it, sh... Show more... Neil Eggleston ...in the White House, even if you do the ACA [Affordable Care Act] and you d... ...White House, even if you do the ACA [ Affordable Care Act ] and you do outreach to Cuba and yo... Stephanie Cutter ...projects, managing messaging for the ACA [Patient Protection and Affordable Car... ...managing messaging for the ACA [ Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ]. In 2011 she became deputy senio... ...projects, managing messaging for the ACA . In 2011 she became deputy senio... ...you're working on messaging around the ACA . Can you talk about the move to tha... ...when it came to working on the ACA , given that the legislation ha... ...you talked about them as part of the ACA , which most people knew as Obamacare... ...of the ACA, which most people knew as Obamacare , support really dropped. So lots o... ...where people see the alternative to Obamacare , and it's actually quite popular, ove... ...were working on messaging around the ACA ? There was a lot of anxiety. It wa... ...of things like what happened with the Affordable Care Act and lots of other things, and I did ... Show more... Dan Pfeiffer ...development phase. For much of the Affordable Care Act [ACA] policy—not the writing of th... ...For much of the Affordable Care Act [ ACA ] policy—not the writing of the bil... ...percent. During the effort to pass the Affordable Care Act , at the end. This is after Te... ...We have full-court press. We are all ACA , all the time. We are trying to d... ...men in particular, to sign up for the Affordable Care Act before the deadline—because if we di... ...Were you in the meetings about the ACA and the communications role in makin... ...And the Recovery Act was one of those, ACA in some ways was one of those. Wha... ...arguing the counterfactual. And then ACA was a place where we were—we knew goin... ...place where we were—we knew going into ACA it would be brutal. It was famousl... ...politically—that if we passed the Affordable Care Act , that would help Obama tremendously i... ...which is, in the conception of the ACA , you are dealing with the problem o... ...shutdown, debt-ceiling crisis, Obamacare [Health Insurance Marketplace] websit... Show more... Eric Holder ...of the Obama administration— Obamacare , healthcare, the Iran nuclea... Jennifer Palmieri ...stimulus, when they're working on the Affordable Care Act [ACA], when they're working on cap an... ...working on the Affordable Care Act [ ACA ], when they're working on cap an... ...for. I don't want to jump ahead to the ACA , but ACA is a good example of this... ...want to jump ahead to the ACA, but ACA is a good example of this. The AC... ...ACA is a good example of this. The ACA rollout in 2013? Yes, the stupi... Brittany Packnett ...passage of what we all now refer to as Obamacare [Affordable Care Act], I went with m... ...what we all now refer to as Obamacare [ Affordable Care Act ], I went with my teammate to th... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Supreme Court Supreme Court go to the Middle East and North Africa Middle East and North Africa go to the Agriculture Agriculture go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Education Education