The Affordable Care Act, helping Americans curb health-care costs

January 5, 2012

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If health-care costs continue to rise unchecked, they will threaten America's ability to compete and will become unaffordable for most families. One of the major reasons we passed the Affordable Care Act was to bring down costs, something the health-care law does in three ways: by increasing insurance-market competition, assisting those who can't afford coverage, and tackling the underlying cost of medical care.