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The Anatomy of Obamacare (What's Not to Like?)

THE ANATOMY OF OBAMACARE (WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE?) The Patient Protection and Affordable Care 10 11 Act (aka "Obamacare" or ACA) has been Increased Employer Medicare mandate/ package payroll tax penalty widely discussed and debated, but remains widely misunderstood. Basic Health- No out-of- No denial Medicaid Health plan Financial Easy-to- Tax benefits pocket of coverage expansion decision due to help for understand plan summaries business services- credits appeals middle-low income uninsured to-admin/ for many to small A March 2012 Kaiser Health poll shows that defined by on upper for large profit ratio preventitive pre-existing many core provisions of the law are viewed favorably by the public, except the individual mandate – a vital organ without which the govemment income employers enforcement services condition 79% 80% 69% 69% 70% 71% 71% plan cannot survive. 51% 53% 54% 57% 75% 50% 32% 25% 12 25% 18% 16% 28% 28% 27% 24% 25% 50% 35% 46% 41% 44% 75% 66% OBAMACARE X-RAY IMAGE 03232 6 of 10 surveyed said they did not have enough information about the health care law to understand how it would impact them personally. Though 66% of respondents have an unfavorable view of the individual mandate, under ACA, only about 6% of the total population will be required to newly purchase coverage or face a penalty. 94% of population already covered 6% The About 2/3 of that 6% will be Individual or Mandate eligible to receive subsidies toward private insurance premiums, which leaves just 2% who must comply with the individual responsibility requirement without any financial help. fully subsidized 10 12 Affordable Care Act favorability and awareness data from Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, March 2012. Available at http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/8285.cfm. Individual mandate data from The Urban Institute, "The Individual Mandate in Perspective" by Linda J. Blumberg, Matthew Buettgens, Judy Feder; March 2012. Available at http://www.urban.org/publications/412533.html. third way © 2012 Third Way. Free for re-use with attribution/link. For more, visit Third Way at www.thirdway.org. Infographic by Bill Rapp. fresh thinking

The Anatomy of Obamacare (What's Not to Like?)

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The Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) has been widely discussed and debated, but remains widely misunderstood. Many core provisions of the law are viewed favorably by the public, except the in...

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