{"id":827,"date":"2014-11-09T17:36:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=827"},"modified":"2014-11-24T17:48:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T23:48:38","slug":"a-brief-history-of-the-affordable-care-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=827","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of the Affordable Care Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/money.howstuffworks.com\/personal-finance\/personal-income-taxes\/history-of-affordable-care-act.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/gallery_img_full\/image\/image_file\/P032310CK-0494.jpg\" alt=\"President Barack Obama signs the health insurance reform bill in the East Room of the White House, March 23, 2010.\" width=\"276\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Obama signs the health insurance reform bill. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is the latest milestone in a century-long struggle to reform healthcare in America and the most significant achievement in that area since President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law in 1965. Its passage was a hard-won victory marred by compromise and sapped by a ceaseless campaign to block its passage, halt its implementation and gut its funding \u2013 a struggle that continues to this day. Already the ACA has overcome one Supreme Court challenge, with another appearance before the highest court in the land likely in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Amid all the wrangling and vitriol, it\u2019s easy to lose track of what happened and when, but don\u2019t worry. My latest article has you covered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howstuffworks.com\/personal-finance\/personal-income-taxes\/history-of-affordable-care-act.htm%20\" target=\"_blank\">The History of the Affordable Care Act<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is the latest milestone in a century-long struggle to reform healthcare in America and the most significant achievement in that area since President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law in 1965. Its passage was a hard-won victory marred by compromise and sapped by a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=827\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Brief History of the Affordable Care Act<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,82,4,290],"tags":[939,937,935,16,934,933,938,34,932,931,936,930,469],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer","category-health","category-history","category-law-2","tag-business-mandate","tag-chip","tag-cobra","tag-economics","tag-erisa","tag-hmo","tag-individual-mandate","tag-insurance","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-part-d","tag-public-option","tag-u-s-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}