What is the affordable care act?

100 pages of paper weighs about 1 pound. There are 20,000 pages in the ACA. So it weighs about 200 pounds.

The Affordable Care Act costs trillions of dollars. (a trillion is the one followed by twelve 0's, or one million million, or a thousand billion if you prefer)

The system that would replace it is where you discuss your health care with your doctor instead of some politician who's off at some world tour in Europe or Asia apologizing for global warming.

Obamacare is universal health care. It requires everybody either buy insurance, get government insurance, or pay a fine.

ACA is a law the states all Americans have to be covered by medical insurance.. This can be insurance from employer provided insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare. Most Americans are covered by one of those. Others who don't have employer insurance can purchase through a Federal or State exchange, but many states do not offer an exchange.

"Obamacare" is just the name that disgruntled Republicans named The Affordable Care Act. Many Americans are not yet ready for universal health care, which would probably be similar to Medicare. Many of the people who are so against ACA are on Medicare.

The ACA is an act that requires people to have health insurance, much as most states require you to carry car insurance. It offers subsidies for people who can't afford the health insurance premiums, paid to private insurance companies. It requires companies to sell insurance to everyone, and to stop excluding those with prior conditions. There are some other features, like allowing adult children to stay on their parents' insurance longer.

What would be more efficient is a single payer system. Billions of what we pay in premiums get skimmed off as profits by the insurance companies. That money could be spent on health care.

First of all, it is NOT health insurance.

It's a set of rules set so greedy insurance companies and big pharma can't screw the little guy. It keeps them from raising their premiums whenever they want and it keeps them from denying care to those with pre-existing conditions. Millions of Americans that could never get care now have care thanks to President Obama.

 How the Affordable Care Act Saves Lives

http://www.thenation.com/article/how-affordable-ca...

An act of kindness for those that couldn't find that before Obama implemented the bill the Republicans were using themselves but sitting on their hands and keeping from the American tax payer.

A lie.

Expanded HSA & insurances companies tfree to sell what they want

O care IS universal care. Both suk

Blank checks for insurance companies to cash in

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RE :What is the affordable care act?

please explain in detail what it does,if we got rid of it what would be a better alternative and would universal health care be better then Obamacare.

Update: NO OPINIONS,JUST FACTS

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a joke,....needed by lazyass liberals!