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The Affordable Care Act will ensure that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care and significantly reduce long-term health care costs. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has determined that it will provide coverage to 32 million more people, or more than 94% percent of Americans, while lowering health care costs over the long term. This historic legislation will reduce the deficit by $143 billion over the next ten years, with $1.2 trillion in additional deficit reduction in the following 10 years. What the legislation does for you: Health insurance reform puts American families and small business owners—not the insurance companies—in control of their own health care. Making health insurance affordable for middle class and small businesses—one of largest tax cuts for health care in history—reducing premiums and out-of-pocket costs. Giving millions of Americans access to affordable insurance choices just as big businesses have—through a new competitive health insurance market that keeps costs down. Holding insurance companies accountable to keep premiums down and prevent denials of care and coverage, including for pre-existing conditions. Improving Medicare benefits with lower prescription drug costs for those in the ‘donut hole,’ better chronic care, free preventive care, and nearly a decade more of solvency for Medicare. Reducing the deficit by $143 billion over the next ten years, and by $1.2 trillion more over the following decade; reining in waste, fraud and abuse, paying for quality over quantity of care. Failure to enact reform would have meant continued double digit premium increases—some as high as 60%, arbitrary loss of coverage, and huge increases in the national deficit. In the 20th District alone, it will improve coverage for 300,000 residents with health insurance; give tax credits and other assistance to up to 186,000 families and 12,700 small businesses to help them afford coverage; improve Medicare for 89,000 beneficiaries; and extend coverage to 147,000 uninsured residents. For more information on how the bill will benefit Texas’s 20th District, click here. Below, you can find links to the full text of the bill, a summary, and a host of fact sheets that break down how various provisions in the legislation will affect you and your loved ones. How Reform Works For You:
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