What Healthcare Reform Means for You
After more than a year of political wrangling, searing debate, and vitriolic protests, President Barack Obama took a historic step toward making medical treatment available for all Americans when his healthcare reform package passed both houses of Congress. Even though he asserted that the legislation he signed into law in late March—the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010—“isn’t radical reform but it is major reform,†it clearly intends to surgically transform the nation’s healthcare system.
