Obamacare is still active although one of its clauses is not. At present, Obamacare or the Affordable Healthcare Act is active, although one of its main clauses “the individual mandate” has been abolished at the federal level since 2019.

Across the globe, the threefold objectives of reform are familiar: increasing access to medical services, improving the quality of care, and controlling the growth of costs.

The Rest of the ACA Remains in Effect Other than the individual mandate penalty repeal (and the repeal of a few of the ACA’s taxes, including the Cadillac Tax), the ACA is still fully in effect.

The American Health Care Act of 2017 (often shortened to the AHCA or nicknamed Trumpcare) was a bill in the 115th United States Congress. With the support of President Donald Trump, House Republicans introduced the AHCA in early 2017, and the bill passed the House in a close vote on May 4, 2017.

The result was in-fighting within the Republican Party. On May 4, 2017, the United States House of Representatives voted to pass the American Health Care Act (and thereby repeal most of the Affordable Care Act) by a narrow margin of 217 to 213, sending the bill to the Senate for deliberation.

The most important difference between Medicaid and Obamacare is that Obamacare health plans are offered by private health insurance companies while Medicaid is a government program (albeit often administered by private insurance companies that offer Medicaid managed care services).

A new insurance benefit from the latest COVID relief bill kicks in Thursday: free Obamacare health insurance for the unemployed for the rest of 2021. Just about everybody who received unemployment benefits this year is eligible.

Yes. You can get a Marketplace plan to cover you before your Medicare begins. You can then cancel the Marketplace plan once your Medicare coverage starts. Learn more if you have Marketplace coverage but will soon be eligible for Medicare.