Ending Hunger in America, 2014 Hunger Report Full Report | Page 33
INTRODUCTION
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), implementation of which has just begun, has the potential
to make affordable health care available to millions of additional people who previously were
excluded because their jobs did not provide insurance, their low incomes made it impossible
to afford the premiums, or insurance providers simply would not insure them because they
had pre-existing conditions. No doubt there will be hiccoughs in its implementation, but the
ACA is a monumental improvement to the American social safety
net, no less of an achievement than Social Security. The uninsured
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