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Keyword Concept Mapping

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Affordable Care Act

Stakeholders

  • Charles Rangel
  • Obama
  • insurance companies
  • Big Pharma
  • 111th Congress
  • Democrats
  • think tanks
  • interest groups

What

  • Obamacare
  • Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
  • HR3590
  • Public Law 111-148

How

  • medicare expansion
  • taxes
  • guaranteed issue
  • individual mandate
  • caps are banned
  • essential health benefits
  • premiums

When

  • 2009 - house
  • 2010 - signed
  • 2014 - provisions in place
  • 2017 - tax cuts and jobs act

Why/Issues/Themes

  • healthcare reform
  • universal healthcare
  • affordability
  • access