The Affordable Care Act Special Collection was actively curated from 2010 until 2018. A bibliography .csv file detailing the contents of the collection is available to download (see “Explore” menu). Titles continue to be accessible, but the collection is no longer actively curated.

Archived date: August 29, 2022

Collection title: Affordable Care Act Special Collection

Collection URL: https://aca.issuelab.org

Availability: 2010-2018

Title count: 274 titles

Creator: IssueLab, a service of Candid.

Description: The passage of the Affordable Care Act represents an historic change in the way health insurance has been handled in the United States. With political discourse about the act continuing to occupy public policy debates and the news media, this collection attempts to shed light on the impact of the policy on citizens and providers as well as examine how the ACA is affecting quality, access, and costs of care.

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Health Reform 2017: Regulation & Administrative Actions Georgia's Marketplace

October 13, 2017

Georgia's 2017 Marketplace Health Reform 2017.

Health Care Costs 101: ACA Spurs Modest Growth

May 4, 2016

After five years of slow growth, national health spending grew by 5.3% in 2014, up from 2.9% in 2013. The faster growth was due in part to coverage expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and increased spending on prescription drugs. US health spending reached $3.0 trillion in 2014, or $9,523 per capita, and accounted for 17.5% of gross domestic product (GDP).Health Care Costs 101: ACA Spurs Modest Growth, which relies on the most recent data available, details how much is spent on health care in the US, which services are purchased, and who pays.Key findings include:Federal subsidies for ACA Marketplace premiums and cost sharing totaled $18.5 billion, accounting for 12% of the $151 billion in new health spending in 2014.Federal spending on Medicaid increased 18.4% (compared to 0.9% for states), as the federal government fully funded the ACA's expansion of Medicaid eligibility in participating states.Spending on prescription drugs increased by $32.4 billion, or 12.2%, much faster than recent years. New hepatitis C drugs accounted for $11.3 billion, more than one-third of the increase in all prescription drug spending.Household spending on direct purchase insurance rose only 2.2% (more slowly than overall spending at 5.3% and similar to overall household spending at 2.0%) despite a 19.5% increase in enrollment levels for direct purchase insurance.The growth rate in per capita spending more than doubled from 2.1% in 2013 to 4.5% in 2014.

Lowering Costs of Care