3-year anniversary: Important milestones for PPACA

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This week marks the third anniversary of President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. As benefits professionals look toward the law’s full implementation next year, here is a quick look at important dates for PPACA past and future.

March 23, 2010: The day Obama signed PPACA into effect. He reflects on that day in a statement released Saturday, “Three years ago today, I signed into law the principle that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one should go broke just because they get sick.”


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