Health care has been a topic of discussion with the majority of the country. Issues related to insurance coverage, rising costs, limited options for obtaining coverage, and quality of health care have become concerns for lawmakers, health care providers, and the general public. Some of these concerns were alleviated with the passage of the Affordable Care Act, but new concerns have emerged following problems that arose during the implementation of the new law. The nation's main concerns are whether the Affordable Care Act will be able to overcome the problems that plagued the old health care system, the cost of the program, and the impact of the new law on the quality of the health delivery system. health care. In 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act to reform the current health care system. The law was designed to provide health coverage to people who previously lacked access to it, improve the quality of the types of health care provided, and contain costs (HHS, 2014). Some of the features of the law are:• Protection against loss or acquisition of health care coverage due to a pre-existing medical condition.• Ending coverage limitations during a patient's lifetime. • Allows children to benefit from their parents' health care coverage until the age of twenty-six. • Preventative care is free for the patient. • Limits the amount of administrative costs to be passed on to the insured .• Requires health insurance companies to justify rate increases (HHS, 2014). By addressing some of the negative factors in the current health care system, the Affordable Care Act attempts to reform the health care system broken-down. AccessThe Affordable Care Act promises the public access to health coverage. Many people who find themselves in the middle of paper......nity in the areas of criminal justice, homelessness, and behavioral health thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. American Journal of Public Health, 103(S2), e25-e29. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2013.301497Fontenot, S. (2013). Understanding the Affordable Care Act one step at a time: Will transparency and sunshine lower costs?. Executive Medicine, 39(5), 86-91. Francis, T. (2013). The Affordable Care Act: An Annotated Timeline. Physician Executive, 39(6), 64-67. Ghosh, C. (2013). Affordable Care Act: Strategies for taming the future. Physician Executive, 39(6), 68-70. Shay, PD and Mick, SS (2013). Post-acute care and vertical integration after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Journal Of Healthcare Management, 58(1), 15-27. United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). (2014). About the law. Retrieved from http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/rights/