Health care reform

Aetna’s work to transform health care in America

With the adoption of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in March 2010, the nation achieved an historic milestone in expanding health care access to millions more Americans. But much remains to be done to address health care cost and quality concerns. We will continue to work toward improving the quality of health outcomes, and providing better value for each dollar spent on care.

Health care reform implementation

Information to help you understand how the new law may impact you.



Learn more about Aetna’s ongoing efforts to help make health care reform both workable and sustainable, and improve the health care system.


A history of developing workable solutions
Aetna has worked with state and federal leaders for years to develop a collaborative approach to making the health care system work better.

  • We are fully engaged in helping to make health care reform both workable and sustainable, and we played a key role in offering the benefits of our insights and expertise during the health care reform process in 2009 and 2010.
  • In 2008, we played a key role in helping to pass mental-health parity legislation.
  • In 2007, we introduced our own comprehensive proposal for transforming the health care system.
  • In 2005, we became the first national health care company to advocate an individual coverage requirement to help address the problem of the uninsured.

Chairman and CEO Ron Williams' testimony before Congress