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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act care provided new
provisions in the existing Public Health Care Service in the United States of America to provide
insurance policies that favored the majority of the population. The Act has achieved many
milestones that range from most individuals getting access to insurance covers including children
and people with pre-existing conditions. Insurance premiums were allowed to vary depending on
the age of the recipient but not location or pre-existing conditions while the premiums for adults
were not supposed to be more than three times those of children. The Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act provided other attached benefits such as maternity and newborn care,
hospitalization, ambulatory patient services, and mental health and disorder services (Protection,