affordable care act
May 31, 2012 -
Research by the Urban Institute finds a high rate of veterans who lack insurance in states like Louisiana that have been slow to implement provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
March 29, 2012 -
A by-the-numbers look at what Americans stand to lose if the high court strikes down the Affordable Care Act.
March 28, 2012 -
The discussion about the Affordable Care Act has focused on whether the federal government can compel people to buy insurance, but the law's expansion of Medicaid to cover millions of low-income people is also being challenged. If this is upended, the courts could be flooded with challenges on everything from environmental protection to civil rights laws.
February 3, 2011 -
Date on which President Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act implementing comprehensive health care reform: 3/23/2010 Date when a group of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit seeking to have the law declared unconstitutional in part because of its mandate that all Americans buy insurance: 3/23/2010
March 24, 2010 -
Democrats called it "historic," Republicans called it "armageddon," and Vice President Biden was caught whispering to President Obama that, in his estimation, it was "a big f***ing deal."
