New American Healthcare history

By the year 2000, NHE accounted for 13.3 percent of GDP — just a 1.2 percent increase over the past decade.

The Medicare Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act passed in 2003, which created Medicare Part D prescription drug benefits.

Massachusetts and Vermont enacted legislation in 2006 that provided health insurance access to residents, a precursor to the Affordable Care Act.

In 2007, the Healthy Americans Act was proposed in the Senate that would have required all Americans to have health insurance.

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The first open enrollment season for the Marketplace started in October 2013, and it was rocky, to say the least.

Nevertheless, 8 million people signed up for insurance through the ACA Marketplace during the first open enrollment season, with enrollment peaking in 2016 at 12.2 million (with 10 million of those receiving subsidies to help pay for insurance).

Since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017, many have questioned what would happen with our healthcare system — specifically, what would happen to the ACA, since Donald Trump ran on a platform of “repealing and replacing” the bill.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the ACA has covered an average of 11.3 million annually since its inception, though 8.5% of the United States population (roughly 27.5 million Americans) remain uninsured, as reported by the KKF in 2018.

Hungry to notch a win on healthcare prior to the 2020 election, the Trump administration continues to push ahead on initiatives designed to reign-in healthcare costs.