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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been controversial to say the least since it was signed into law a few years ago.
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One of the biggest problems that many consumers have faced in the last few years with regard to their health insurance coverage is that they often did not know what they were paying for, or how much their costs would increase from one year to the next.
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The various parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that extended new avenues for health coverage to many economically disadvantaged Americans was controversial, but as far as actually getting the previously uninsured enrolled in plans, it seems to have done its job quite well.
California saw huge surge of health insurance enrollment under ACA
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act brought health coverage to millions of Americans through its mandated exchanges and expansion of individual states’ Medicaid programs, but the improvements in enrollment numbers have varied significantly from one part of the country to the next.
California saw huge jump in health insurance premiums under ACA
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Researchers signed fake people up for health insurance exchanges
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New GASB accounting standards on the way
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