It is Barack Obama’s major achievement.

The reform for which he fought the most, for which he lost a lot of political capital. Because of it, he even lost the democratic majority in the US Congress after the 2010 mid-term elections.

Voted in March 2010 but implemented since 2014, the Affordable Care Act – known as Obamacare – has enabled to curb inequalities in a country where they had kept increasing since the 1970s.

As a result, the working poor and immigrants have been the top beneficiaries of this reform.