Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Obama Presidency Oral History Index / Policies Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Transcripts Josh Earnest ...and Reinvestment Act of]. You have the ACA [Affordable Care Act], the rise of th... ...Act of]. You have the ACA [ Affordable Care Act ], the rise of the Tea Part... ...know, healthcare.gov became a proxy for Obamacare itself, and the sense was if th... ...that we faced as we talked about the Affordable Care Act , and made the case that it was good... ...it, and—I guess this is well known— Obamacare is mostly quite popular now, but ther... Patrick Gaspard ...on a campaign like the fight for the ACA [Affordable Care Act]? What does i... ...a campaign like the fight for the ACA [ Affordable Care Act ]? What does it look like to build ou... ...up at the policy table, because on ACA , there were ten thousand nuances fo... Marielena Hincapié ...a few first-term issues. One is the ACA [Affordable Care Act]. We've talked ... ...few first-term issues. One is the ACA [ Affordable Care Act ]. We've talked a little bit abou... ...discussions were you doing around the ACA as it was being developed? We wer... ...We were very involved on the ACA , particularly, again, working wit... ...think—to me, what I would say about the ACA is, we, as an organization, reall... Don Verrilli ...of Justice on the defense of the Affordable Care Act . President Obama signed the ACA int... ...Care Act. President Obama signed the ACA into law in March, and it was a... ...Obama administration saying that the Affordable Care Act was a tax. President Obama had, in th... ...it anyway. The concern was that the Affordable Care Act , the individual mandate requiring yo... ...It was, This could really matter. The ACA is going to be a big part of you... ...was going to be a need to defend the Affordable Care Act . But it was typical of Presiden... ...brought up, which are DOMA and the ACA . But let's start with the ACA. Talk t... ...and the ACA. But let's start with the ACA . Talk to me about how you prepared t... ...involved in those, of course. But the ACA was different. We knew this was ... ...[Court], one of the challenges to the ACA . The panel of judges issued ... ...to work. No. I celebrated first. The ACA would come up again and agai... ...attacking the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act in the run-up to the election. Yo... ...organizations that cared about the ACA out there in the public dialogue, bot... ...NFIB and King v. Burwell showed us, the Affordable Care Act —for people on the right, it jus... ...amount in the legal sphere as well. The Affordable Care Act , as a matter of policy, is an endurin... Show more... David Simas ...or even the entire process around the Affordable Care Act [ACA], months, and months, and months... ...around the Affordable Care Act [ ACA ], months, and months, and months... ...like the financial crisis and the Affordable Care Act . But before we get into those, mayb... ...were you hearing from people about the ACA and various proposals about it, how i... ...informed us as we were going into the ACA fight that healthcare is the mos... ...upon the things I'm hearing about the Affordable Care Act ,” the “I'm worried about folks wh... ...senators prior to some hearing on the Affordable Care Act . And David and I gave the senators o... ...is around when we were doing the ACA —would lose control of the House o... ...three most popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act were universalist in application. Yes... ...you look at Obama's speeches around the ACA , you know, you will see the reference... ...auto bailout, the unpopularity of the ACA , the Tea Party, and you're headin... ...bit. And that is the issue of the ACA healthcare rollout, HealthCare.go... ...then led to the shutdown around the Affordable Care Act . That's now the terrain of battle, ou... ...It was that close to essentially the Obamacare , the ACA, that thing that we ha... ...close to essentially the Obamacare, the ACA , that thing that we had expended s... Show more... Cecilia Muñoz ...treasure the signing of the [laughs] Affordable Care Act [ACA]—but I really deeply treasure th... ...for a piece of legislation like the ACA ? Now, thinking about both of thos... ...as everyone is working on putting the ACA together? I think we were—it seeme... ...which they had originally drafted. The Affordable Care Act was—famously—based on Governor Romney'... ...longer than we expected to pass the Affordable Care Act . And this, as you know, famously die... ...Let's not forget we actually passed the Affordable Care Act . We also passed the [Family Smokin... ...of putting together something like the ACA , are you talking with mayors an... ...leaders about what should be in the ACA ? What are those discussions like? ... ...and made sure I was too. And then the ACA actually made permanent—I forget th... ...enormous victory that was part of the ACA , which happened because tribal leader... ...and we made sure to reach out. The Affordable Care Act team was led by Nancy-Ann DeParle. Yo... ...making sure that we maximized what the Affordable Care Act achieved in the territories and for th... ... The communicating we did around the Affordable Care Act , the outreach, was another example o... ...successful in the outreach under the Affordable Care Act . To a degree, I mean, it's hard t... Show more... Sharon Block ...legislation. And then, obviously, the ACA [Affordable Care Act]. So we had a... ...And then, obviously, the ACA [ Affordable Care Act ]. So we had an important role in al... ...EBSA, had a huge role in the ACA . So we were extremely involved. ... ...in a leading role, certainly on the ACA , I don't know that the legislatio... ...the president over some pieces of the ACA . I think a stronger role for th... ...hearing from them, and also about the ACA . I think we had a pretty open door i... ...It was challenging. Again, around the ACA , there were significant issues... Show more... Stephanie Valencia ...of change and even just things like the ACA [Affordable Care Act] that we see, an... ...and even just things like the ACA [ Affordable Care Act ] that we see, and the long-lastin... ...And it truly has, because now the ACA is still the law of the land. They'v... ...the Recovery Act, moving forward on the ACA , but maybe not moving forward a... ...And those are the Recovery Act and the ACA . Can you talk about Latino outreac... ...package. Excellent. And what about the ACA ? When it came time to do that, how di... ...trying to do with that work with the ACA was to show the value of and th... ...importance of having something like the ACA to cover people who historicall... ...but we had to be really creative as the ACA passed and as we implemented the ACA t... ...ACA passed and as we implemented the ACA to also think about, what were th... ...communities to evangelize about the ACA , and why people should sign up and wh... ...one very challenging part about the ACA was the lack of inclusion o... ...moments like now, but also back to the ACA , in providing opportunity and acces... ... And I think you saw that with the ACA . I think you saw that with immigratio... ...how we get more people signed up in the Affordable Care Act in this part of the state—” becaus... Show more... 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