{"id":865,"date":"2021-02-17T14:30:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T19:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/149.4.100.129\/health\/?page_id=865"},"modified":"2026-01-24T20:11:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:11:44","slug":"affordable-care-act","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/health\/affordable-care-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordable Care Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_blurb use_icon=&#8221;on&#8221; font_icon=&#8221;&#x6a;||divi||400&#8243; icon_color=&#8221;#e71939&#8243; icon_placement=&#8221;left&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; header_font=&#8221;Open Sans||||||||&#8221; body_font=&#8221;Open Sans||||||||&#8221; body_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; body_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2010 with the goals of making affordable health insurance available to more people, expanding the Medicaid program to cover all adults with income below 138% of the FPL (federal poverty level), and supporting innovative medical care delivery methods designed to lower the costs of health care.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information sheets<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/info.nystateofhealth.ny.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> New York State of Health Official Health Plan Marketplace<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcare.gov\/glossary\/health-insurance-marketplace-glossary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What is the Health Insurance Marketplace?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/info.nystateofhealth.ny.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/Young%20Adults%20Fact%20Sheet_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ACA for Young Adult<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/info.nystateofhealth.ny.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/Immigrants%20Fact%20Sheet_3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ACA for Immigrants<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/younginvincibles.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Young Invincibles, Finding Health Insurance Toolkit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2010 with the goals of making affordable health insurance available to more people, expanding the Medicaid program to cover all adults with income below 138% of the FPL (federal poverty level), and supporting innovative medical care delivery methods designed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"page_category":[],"wf_page_folders":[145],"class_list":["post-865","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/865\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_category?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}