The Affordable Care Act is working for Virginia

March 19, 2012

The Affordable Care Act celebrates its two-year anniversary this Thursday, March 23. To mark the occasion, advocates across the Commonwealth will host events to highlight how the ACA is working for Virginia and changing lives.

Progressive Point: Health care reform is working for Virginians in profound ways. The ACA is fixing our badly broken health care system, reducing fraud and corruption.  It's saving our seniors millions of dollars on prescription drug costs. It's protecting our children with pre-existing conditions, our young adults and our uninsured, helping them get insurance and the critical health care they need. It's helping those most in need get critical care, through grants to community health centers and expanded Medicaid coverage.

Get the Facts: Throughout the past two years since the ACA was enacted, it's benefited Virginia's seniors, women, children, young adults, small businesses, consumers and communities.

• Virginia's seniors on Medicare have saved nearly $80 million on brand-name prescription drugs because of the ACA and more than 800,000 have received free preventative care services


• More than 1.5 million Virginians, including 410,000 children, can now get preventative care services without a co-pay


• Nearly 3,000,000 Virginians are now free of fear from lifetime caps on insurance coverage
• More than 60,000 of Virginia's young adults now have health care coverage though their parents' employer-provided health insurance


• More than 2,000,000 Virginians are better informed about the percentage of their premium dollars insurance companies actually spend on health care costs


• Virginians most in need have received critical health care through public health services and community-based clinics supported by more than $64.5 million in federal funding.

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