Medicaid Expansion Is a Key Part of Affordable Care Act

While experts say it's less vulnerable to legal challenge, some worry there won't be enough doctors available

March 22, 2012 RSS Feed Print

And he said a provision for student loan forgiveness could help overcome a barrier to medical students choosing family medicine and other primary-care specialties.

"It's important to acknowledge for our membership that [the new law] was controversial," Stream said. "We have 100,000 members across the country and certainly they represent the political diversity in our society.

"Our academy is focusing -- because the Affordable Care Act is now law -- on helping to preserve and expand and implement those pieces that we see as important to the health of people in our country," he added.

More information

To learn about the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid eligibility, visit Medicaid.gov.

To read an overview story on the Affordable Care Act, click here.

For legal experts' best guess on how the Supreme Court will rule on the Affordable Care Act, click here.

To learn more about the importance of the individual mandate to the Affordable Care Act, click here.