What’s Near-Term Outlook for Affordable Care Act?

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation issued the following news release:

With congressional Republicans' efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act on hold, a new issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation answers questions about the current state of the 2010 health law, zeroing in on the individual insurance marketplaces that the law established. Questions addressed by the brief include:

Is Obamacare failing?

How would administrative actions affect market stability?

What happens if the market fails?

What might be done to strengthen the Marketplaces?