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Affordable Care Act

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noun

  1. formal name for Obamacare. ACA


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This isn’t a fight about single payer, or the Affordable Care Act, or whatever is meant to replace it.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

People who get insurance on the Affordable Care Act exchanges are paying an average $178 per month for their premiums, up from $113 last year, KFF researchers said.

From MarketWatch Aug. 1, 2026

The company attributed the higher benefit-expense ratio primarily to improved performance in individual Affordable Care Act coverage compared with the year before.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

By then, the individual marketplaces that opened in 2014 were well established under the Affordable Care Act.

From Barron's Jun. 10, 2026

Major provisions of the Affordable Care Act had also gone into effect, with young people allowed to remain longer on their parents’ insurance policies and companies prevented from capping a patient’s lifetime coverage.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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