 On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), which is designed (with its companion set of amendments in H.R. 4782) to provide coverage to 32 million uninsured people, adopt broad-reaching reforms in insurance industry practices, make major new investments in public health, and reduce the federal deficit. By 2019, 92 percent of the non-elderly population is expected to have health insurance (94 percent if undocumented immigrants are excluded from the calculation). In that year, an additional 16 million individuals will obtain coverage through Medicaid and CHIP and 29 million will obtain coverage through new health insurance Exchanges. Georgetown Center for Children and Families' (CCF) health reform work focuses on providing federal and state organizations working on implementation with the tools and resources they need to fulfill the promise that the new law offers. Working at both the national and local levels, CCF will undertake research and analysis, education efforts on the potential offered by reform, and direct assistance to state-based groups implementing elements of the law. Follow the links to the right for additional resources on this issue. |
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