The Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148 (H.R. 3590), enacted 2010-03-23. What the text says, its status by provision, and sources.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act became Public Law 111-148 on March 23, 2010. As enacted, it required people to maintain minimum essential health coverage, barred group health plans and insurers from imposing preexisting condition exclusions, and provided Medicaid coverage for people with income at or below 133 percent of the poverty line beginning in 2014. A later law set the payment for not maintaining coverage to $0 for months after 2018. Economic effects, who was affected and why people disagree are marked as not yet researched where that is so. No person has signed off on this record.