Which Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) provisions will survive until 2029?
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2029
59%
Guaranteed issue (protection from discrimination by insurers for preexisting conditions)
59%
Dependents can stay on parents' insurance until age 26
50%
No deductibles/co-pay for vaccinations
50%
Medicaid expansion
50%
Nutrition labelling requirements
50%
Prescription drugs as essential services (must be covered by insurance)
50%
Coverage for contraceptive methods
50%
Per-state insurance exchanges
50%
Bundled payments for Medicare
41%
States may require abortion care coverage
41%
Premium subsidies for households between 100-400% of federal poverty level using insurance exchanges
41%
Employer mandate for businesses with >50 employees

The Affordable Care Act, colloquially Obamacare, was signed into law in 2010 and contained many reforms of the US healthcare system.

Since then, several provisions have been amended or removed, either legislatively (the individual mandate was zeroed out in 2017), or judicially (parts of the incentives for Medicaid expansion were overruled by the Supreme Court in 2012).

Which provisions will continue to be in effect on January 1, 2029?

For cases where a provision is tweaked but not removed, I will resolve to Yes if the new law as of 2029 subsumes/implies the old law and No if the old law subsumes the new law.

For example, for "Dependents can stay on parents' insurance until age 26”, if the cutoff were raised to 27, I would resolve as Yes, and if it were lowered to 25, I would resolve as No.

As another example, with the individual mandate penalty functionally set to $0, as it was in 2017, I would have resolved a question about the individual mandate surviving as No even if the language of the mandate is still law.

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