Virtually all Americans will be affected in some way with the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which President Obama signed into law on March 23, 2010.
How you are impacted personally depends on how the fine details of the legislation are implemented. Your age, employment status, income, current insurance coverage, and health status can all influence how the health reform legislation may have an effect on you and your family.
The actual bill signed into law fills more than 1,000 pages and details a set of immediate health insurance benefits along with a plan for rolling out additional benefits over a four-year period and beyond.
The following timeline highlights some of the legislation’s specific provisions and an outline of when these requirements are scheduled to be implemented.
