Why The Affordable Care Act Needs A Better Name: ‘Americare’

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-2010

Journal Title

Health Affairs

ISSN

0278-2715

DOI

10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0465

Abstract

The culmination of a century’s effort to enact universal coverage in the United States is a law with an uninspiring title, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and an even more awkward acronym, PPACA. The Obama administration has decided to call the legislation the Affordable Care Act, but the expansion of health coverage that the law sets in motion has no name, and therefore no identity. It badly needs one.

First Page

1496

Last Page

1497

Num Pages

2

Volume Number

29

Issue Number

8

Publisher

Health Affairs

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