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All about the Affordable Care Act and how members led the way.
  1. The ACA is here to stay.
  2. Pass, Promote, Protect!
  3. The Affordable Care Act is working.
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The ACA is here to stay.

More than 16 million Americans who didn’t have health insurance before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) now have access to quality, affordable coverage. The Affordable Care Act – or, Obamacare – is making healthcare more affordable for all Americans, regardless of where they live or work.

As a result of all the law’s coverage expansions, nearly 90% of all Americans have health insurance, leading to greater health and financial security for families, hospitals, and communities.

The Affordable Care Act protects individuals from being denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition, like high blood pressure or asthma, and cannot have their coverage dropped if they get sick.

Tax credits have allowed all Americans, but particularly Latinos, African Americans, and young people—those who typically fare the worst in our economy—to afford healthcare for their families, many for the very first time.

Pass, Promote, Protect!

SEIU Healthcare helped to pass the ACA. We helped to promote the ACA. And we will fight to protect the ACA.



SEIU Healthcare members worked for decades to pass healthcare reform that provides quality, affordable healthcare to every man, woman, and child in our country.SEIU registered nurses, doctors, and other healthcare workers took the lead in promoting the law by educating our communities about the ACA’s benefits.We’ve also fought to protect the law against an extremist agenda that would leave millions without coverage.Despite two U.S. Supreme Court cases and more than 50 votes held by Republicans in Congress to repeal the law, the Affordable Care Act is here to stay.

The Affordable Care Act is working.

  • More than 16 million Americans have health coverage, many for the first time, thanks to the ACA, including over 10 million consumers who are enrolled through the marketplaces.
  • More than 100 million Americans who have preexisting conditions can never be denied coverage again, no matter where they get their insurance, thanks to the ACA.
  • An estimated 55 million women are benefiting from preventive services coverage, including contraception, with no out-of-pocket costs. The ACA also made it illegal to charge women more just because of their gender, meaning that being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition.
  • The percentage of uninsured Americans has plummeted, thanks to the Affordable Care Act. According to Gallup, the uninsured rate is now 11.9 percent, a decrease of nearly 35 percent since the ACA’s major provisions went into effect.
  • 85 percent of consumers who purchase coverage through the marketplace received a tax credit, with the average consumer receiving $272 each month to help them purchase quality, affordable coverage.
  • This year, more than 80 percent of consumers using Healthcare.gov could purchase a plan for less than $100 a month or less after tax credits.
  • More than 60 percent of ACA enrollees say that they would not have been able to access or afford care without their ACA coverage and 81 percent of ACA enrollees report that they are satisfied with their plans.
  • 9.4 million seniors on Medicare have saved over $15 billion on prescription drugs since the law’s enactment, for an average savings of $1,598 per person.
  • 2.4 million young people have been able to stay on their parents’ insurance until they turn 26.
  • The cost of uncompensated care in hospitals was reduced last year by more than $7 billion, thanks to the ACA. If all states expanded Medicaid, it could be reduced by almost $9 billion next year.
  • Since the first full year of the implementation of the ACA, we have seen the slowest growth in real per capita health care spending on record. Long-term spending estimates for federal health care spending have been reduced by hundreds of billions of dollars.