The purpose of the ACA was to reform health care in America. The focus of the ACA was to reform the affordability, quality, availability of health insurance, make new cost cutting measures, rules and regulations for both public and private health insurance companies and the health care industry. According to the office of the Legislative Counsel (2010), the Patient Protection and ACA’s aim was to increase the number of Americans who could have access to affordable health insurance. This would done by expanding Medicaid to Americans with the lowest socio-economic status, providing tax credits to small employers who provide coverage to their employees, providing tax credits to individuals who are unable to provide for their own insurance, reforming
