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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The ACA includes provisions to take effect between 2010 and 2020, although most took effect on January 1, 2014. Few areas of the US health care system were left untouched, making it the most sweeping health care reform since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.[2][3][4][15][5] However, some areas were more affected than others. The individual insurance market was radically overhauled, and many of the law's regulations applied specifically to this market,[2] while the structure of Medicare, Medicaid, and the employer market were largely retained.[3] Most of the coverage gains were made through the expansion of Medicaid,[16] and the biggest cost savings were made in Medicare.[3] Some regulations applied to the employer market, and the law also made delivery system changes that affected most of the health care system.[3] Not all provisions took full effect. Some were made discretionary, some were deferred, and others were repealed before implementation.
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Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act The MMA was signed by President George W. Bush on December 8, 2003, after passing in Congress by a close margin.[3]
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The ACA's major provisions came into force in 2014. By 2016, the uninsured share of the population had roughly halved, with estimates ranging from 20â€“24 million additional people covered during 2016.[6][7] The increased coverage was due, roughly equally, to an expansion of Medicaid eligibility and to major changes to individual insurance markets. Both involved new spending, funded through a combination of new taxes and cuts to Medicare provider rates and Medicare Advantage. Several Congressional Budget Office reports said that overall these provisions reduced the budget deficit, that repealing the ACA would increase the deficit[8][9], and that the law reduced income inequality by taxing primarily the top 1% to fund roughly $600 in benefits on average to families in the bottom 40% of the income distribution.[10] The law also enacted a host of delivery system reforms intended to constrain healthcare costs and improve quality. After the law went into effect, increases in overall healthcare spending slowed, including premiums for employer-based insurance plans.[11]