1. What is the primary goal of the ACA?
Answer: To increase access to affordable healthinsurance forthemillions of Americans without
coverage and make health insurancemore affordable for those already covered.
2. List some of the provisions of the ACA
Answer:
Restructures the private health insurance market.
Sets minimum standards for health coverage.
Creates a mandate for most U.S.residents to obtain health insurance coverage.
Provides for the establishment by 2014 of state-based insurance marketplaces (previously
called exchanges) for the purchase of private health insurance.
3. How do families and individuals reduce the cost of purchasing coveragethrough the
insurance marketplaces?
Answer: Federal subsidies
4. Other provisions of the ACA
Answer:
Expands eligibility for Medicaid.
Amends the Medicare program in ways that are intended to reduce the growth inMedicare
spending.
Imposes an excise tax on insurance plans found to have high premiums.
Makes numerous other changes to the tax code,
