Everyone needs quality and affordable healthcare, especially people with lung cancer and chronic lung diseases like asthma and COPD. We need your help to protect access to care for patients with or at risk for lung disease.
Lung Health and the Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law in March 2010. The American Lung Association strongly supports the ACA because it benefits millions of Americans with asthma, lung cancer and other lung disease and helps millions of Americans have quality and affordable healthcare.
Tobacco Cessation and the ACA
Affordable Care Act Timeline: Learn more about the Affordable Care Act and when key provisions took effect.
ACA Tobacco Cessation Guidance Toolkit: The Lung Association has a number of materials, including template letters, and resources created and compiled by the American Lung Association to explain this tobacco cessation guidance, and help you utilize the guidance to help smokers quit in your state.
ACA Factsheets and Resources: The Lung Association has factsheets and resources on the ways the ACA has improved access to quit-smoking treatments.
Page last updated: October 7, 2024
