The American Heart Association supports policies that extend healthcare coverage to all. We also support measures to ensure that heart disease and stroke patients receive timely and affordable access to the full range of care and services they need. Specific areas of focus include:
- Promoting and defending the implementation of the health reform law, which will expand health insurance coverage to about 30 million Americans when fully implemented
- Protecting access to Medicare and Medicaid, which together serve millions of Americans with heart disease and stroke
- Ensuring timely access to appropriate care along the entire continuum, including emergency care, telemedicine, and rehabilitation and recovery services
- Promoting access to lifesaving Automated External Defibrillators and supporting efforts to improve emergency medical services
How You Can Ensure Timely Access to Cardiovascular Care…
You don't have to be an Emergency Medical Technician to help ensure access to cardiovascular care, just an advocate with the American Heart Association willing to ask your lawmakers or federal officials that timely and affordable access to healthcare services is important to you and your family.
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On March 23rd, 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, making health care coverage more available, affordable, and adequate for patients with heart disease and stroke. As a non-partisan, patient advocacy organization, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association launched our 
