The ACA Turns 10 - California Health Care Foundation

The ACA Turns 10
The Affordable Care Act was signed into law on March 23, 2010. On the law's 10th anniversary, this collection highlights some key CHCF research and resources exploring the impact of the ACA.

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The Affordable Care Act Turns 10

Xenia Shih Bion

Expanding Health Coverage, Coverage Trends, Medi-Cal

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Since 2010, the ACA has been folded into American life in myriad ways, reducing the number of people who are uninsured to historically low levels.

Ten Years After: The ACA’s Success in Five Charts

Anne Sunderland

Expanding Health Coverage, Medi-Cal, Coverage Trends

Happy birthday to the landmark law that reshaped the American health care system.

Expanding Medicaid Can Save Lives

August 12, 2019

Xenia Shih Bion

Stories That Caught Our Attention: A new study suggests that the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion reduced death rates among older adults with low incomes.

Researchers: Medicaid Expansion Equals Better Coverage, Better Outcomes

Xenia Shih Bion

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Research suggests residents of Medicaid expansion states experience improved health and well-being.

Affordability on California’s Individual Market Under the ACA

Expanding Health Coverage, Coverage Trends

This issue brief explores trends in key data on the affordability of health coverage in California, to highlight both progress and remaining challenges to affordability on the state’s individual market under the ACA.

ACA Reduces Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Coverage Rates in California

Coverage Trends

New data from the California Health Insurance Survey show that coverage in California remained stable in 2016–17. Of particular note is how the Affordable Care Act has narrowed disparities in coverage between different racial and ethnic groups.

Data Show Medicaid Expansion Benefited Family Finances

November 17, 2017

Anne Sunderland

Health Care Costs, Medi-Cal

Researchers have found that the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion is associated with declining medical debt, fewer personal bankruptcies, improved credit scores, and reduced reliance on predatory lending practices.

ACA’s Impact: Fewer Uninsured in Most Congressional Districts

With the intensifying debate over the future of the Affordable Care Act, this timely analysis provides data about changes in the uninsured population between 2013 and 2015 by congressional district.

California Health Insurers Hold on to Previous ACA Gains

Katherine Wilson

Medi-Cal, Coverage Trends

Health insurance enrollment was stable in 2016, a sign of maturity and equilibrium after the sweeping changes brought about by the ACA in the two previous years.

ACA Cost-Sharing Reductions Help Low-Income Working Families

August 22, 2017

Coverage Trends

With the heightened focus on the monthly Trump administration decisions on cost-sharing reductions for Affordable Care Act plans, a CHCF expert explains the stakes for California.

ACA Reduced Health Cost Burden Among African Americans in California

Medi-Cal, Coverage Trends

It's important not to let rhetoric overshadow facts. The ACA, while not perfect, is resulting in improvements in access to health insurance and therefore access to health care.

‘The ACA Allowed Me to Pursue My American Dream’

Anne Sunderland

Coverage Trends, Medi-Cal

With the Obamacare repeal debate in full swing in Congress, it's important to remember how the law changed millions of Californians' lives for the better. Here are the stories of three of them.

Californians with Individual Health Insurance Spent Almost $2,500 Less on Care in Year One of Health Reform

Amy Adams, Sam Patnoe

Coverage Trends

Median out-of-pocket spending for families with individual coverage dropped sharply in 2014 as the Affordable Care Act was implemented.