Subject Guide
P.L. 111-148 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
- The Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIPS)How does the Affordable Care Act affect Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program? From the Medicaid.gov website.
- Factsheets from AARPAARP offers short fact sheets about the changes to health care law. These fact sheets cover over twenty topics on how changes will affect specific populations, Medicare, small business and more.
- Healthcare.govA good place to start.
- Implementation TimelineFrom the Democratic Policy Commitee.
- Key Features of the Affordable Care ActFrom the Department of Health and Human Services.
- Medicaid ExpansionAs part of the Affordable Care Act, individual states were given the choice to expand Medicaid services. Learn more about Medicaid expansion and find information about specific states at the page below from Healthcare.gov.
- What Is the Health Insurance Marketplace?This page provides a good explanation of the Marketplace, and it includes a tool to search for state-specific information.
- The YouToons Get Ready for ObamacareFor an entertaining and less intensive look at the health insurance changes related to the Affordable Care Act, check out this seven-minute video from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
