Obamacare is not a specific insurance policy.The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is better known under the name Obamacare because it was the conceptualization of U.S. President Barack Obama and passed during his first term in office.It is a piece of legislation that attempts to guarantee a specific level of health care coverage to people in need of insurance. The passage of Obamacare amended previous legislation to make sure that private insurance plans and group insurance plans provide basic health care services, such as:
Laboratory services
Pediatric care
Vision care
Emergency treatment services
Mental health and behavioral health care
Often referred to as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the legislation attempted to reform the health care system by providing all Americans with access to affordable health care.  The above-listed services and others were deemed to be essential health benefits that all insurance policies should provide based on statues in prior legislation that were incorporated into the current bill.Supporters of the ACA believe that millions of individuals who were not getting health care coverage before the law were able to get affordable and quality coverage following its implementation.