From Families USA: Efforts to Halt Health Reform

Executive Summary

Opponents of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have urged state legislators and officials to introduce and pass legislation that would block implementation of key provisions of the law. Using politics to undermine the goals of the ACA to improve and expand access to health coverage, these opponents are relentless in their efforts to halt implementation. This fact sheet describes the misguided logic of these anti-reform efforts, and reaffirms the importance of the reforms created by the ACA.