Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

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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...

Janet Napolitano

...about the Recovery Act and about the ACA [Affordable Care Act], or are you ove...
...the Recovery Act and about the ACA [ Affordable Care Act ], or are you over on your own, dealin...

Tommy Vietor

...experience to some extent. When the Affordable Care Act was happening, it was the mood musi...

Destiny Blackmon

...that when you look at how people say, “ Obamacare ,” blah, blah, blah, “The healthcar...
...system is in shambles because of Obamacare ,” and just different things, to wher...

Ben LaBolt

...to pass the [Patient Protection and] Affordable Care Act and we can't have eighteen agencie...
...in those first couple of years—the Affordable Care Act , Recovery Act, Dodd-Frank Wall Stree...
...that Romneycare looked nothing like Obamacare and ran away from it throughout th...
...college costs down, improve upon the Affordable Care Act , make more progress on climate. Tha...

Sandra Fluke

...of birth control coverage in the Affordable Care Act [ACA]. She later testified before th...
...coverage in the Affordable Care Act [ ACA ]. She later testified before the Hous...
...school, prior to testifying about the ACA , what form did your activism tak...
...about contraceptive access and the ACA ? Yeah, so for maybe two years befor...
...of filing a lawsuit. At the time, the Affordable Care Act was being—it was passed 2010, if ...

Anne Filipic

...Americans access coverage through the Affordable Care Act [ACA] . She is currently serving a...
...through the Affordable Care Act [ ACA ] . She is currently serving a...
...that you were there and the work on the ACA was being undertaken? Sure. So th...
...of those big pieces, of course, was the Affordable Care Act . And that was passed in spring o...
...of building the infrastructure for the ACA , and most notably was, on the horizon...

...HHS, of course, at the moment that the ACA passed, started building from there...
...of getting it right in terms of ACA enrollment in 2013. And in my role i...
...who were preparing to do work around ACA enrollment. A little bit of a landscap...
...first, some of the basics of how the ACA was set up, and, of course, there'...
...coverage. It was not our job to make Obamacare more popular, which might sound quit...
...on, sort of, the politics of the Affordable Care Act and Obamacare, and bring to it a len...
...politics of the Affordable Care Act and Obamacare , and bring to it a lens of, Well, ho...
...become an expert on all aspects of the Affordable Care Act . I tried to become an expert on th...
...navigating the implementation of the ACA . So, you're working alongside a lo...
...critical part of the early days of the ACA , was folks that—organizations tha...
...issues around the passage of the ACA , who could say, “We might not agree o...
...a lot of people were talking about the Affordable Care Act in the news [laughs] . So it raise...
...was Republican opposition to the ACA , and that meant not setting up stat...
...expansion. So, the vision for the ACA was that at a certain income an...
...And, of course, that is not how the ACA was ultimately implemented, the Suprem...
...we could do for the politics of the ACA —our focus was not, as I said, sort o...
...was not, as I said, sort of making the ACA more popular, but I actually felt tha...
...of a demand. And still, of course, the ACA is very politicized, and still, o...
...just think of the work to pass the ACA , right? And certainly, that's a bi...
...president who was opposed to the ACA was elected? And did you have a sens...
...needed to be around more, or that the ACA could go away? Like, how did tha...
...just acknowledge that opponents of the ACA held the presidency, the House, and th...

Christopher Dodd

...way because before that was the Affordable Care Act [ACA], which jumps in. Clearly, th...
...that was the Affordable Care Act [ ACA ], which jumps in. Clearly, th...
...And of course we have half of the Affordable Care Act . Finance Committee and the Senate hav...
...seven in the morning, we passed the Affordable Care Act in the Senate—and I'll come back t...
...may remember that that passage of the ACA on Christmas Eve morning was actuall...

...consideration of what would become the Affordable Care Act . Yes, I had forgotten that. And i...

Paul Ryan

...and I produced the big alternative to Obamacare , on health care, a market-based syste...
...which Simpson-Bowles did, and keeping Obamacare , basically kills private healt...
...insurance, and moves everybody onto Obamacare , and supersizes that entitlement. T...
...massive tax increase, a supersizing of Obamacare , and ignoring the other healthcar...
...in 2013 I think it was, over defunding Obamacare , by shutting down the government, an...

...we don't fund discretionary spending, Obamacare 's an entitlement, like Medicare o...
...government doesn't do a thing to stop Obamacare , doesn't defund it at all. It jus...
...has redefined what it is to be against Obamacare . He's redefined what it is to b...

Chris Lu

...about Deepwater Horizon. We did the Affordable Care Act right? We talked a little bit abou...
...talked a little bit about the Affordable Care Act , but not in any real detail. We talke...
...Did we talk about the passage of the Affordable Care Act ? We did not. This was kind of a...
...were both a cap and trade bill and the Affordable Care Act . I think we all disagreed with this...
...One of the big achievements in the Affordable Care Act is that it requires reporting on healt...

...of other legislation passed. We got the Affordable Care Act , obviously, passed. Should we hav...

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