{"id":2163,"date":"2012-06-25T05:09:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T09:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2012-06-25T05:09:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T09:09:54","slug":"11-facts-about-the-affordable-care-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/06\/11-facts-about-the-affordable-care-act\/","title":{"rendered":"11 facts about the Affordable Care Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past week, both Alec MacGillis and Sabrina Tavernise have written articles touching on how little the uninsured actually know about the Affordable Care Act. Given that polling shows the law remains unpopular even as its component parts \u2014 with the notable exception of the individual mandate \u2014 are very popular, it seems they\u2019re not alone. So here\u2019s a refresher on some of the law\u2019s most significant policies and consequences:<\/p>\n<p>1. By 2022, the Congressional Budget Office estimates\u00a0(pdf) the Affordable Care Act will have extended coverage to 33 million Americans who would otherwise be uninsured.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/wp\/2012\/06\/24\/11-facts-about-the-affordable-care-act\/\">11 facts about the Affordable Care Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past week, both Alec MacGillis and Sabrina Tavernise have written articles touching on how little the uninsured actually know about the Affordable Care Act. Given that polling shows the law remains unpopular even as its component parts \u2014 with the notable exception of the individual mandate \u2014 are very popular, it seems they\u2019re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22],"tags":[125,1266,206,672],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}