--- title: President Barack Obama Answers Affordable Care Act Questions On Quora description: As the March 31 deadline to buy individual health care plans approaches, the president continues his outreach campaign to encourage the uninsured to sign up canonical: https://time.com/35927/obama-quora-affordable-care-act/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-24T19:54:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T06:56:00.790Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Obama joins Quora to answer health care questions og:description: As the March 31 deadline to buy individual health care plans approaches, the president continues his outreach campaign to encourage the uninsured to sign up og:url: https://time.com/35927/obama-quora-affordable-care-act/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Obama joins Quora to answer health care questions twitter:description: As the March 31 deadline to buy individual health care plans approaches, the president continues his outreach campaign to encourage the uninsured to sign up twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # President Obama Joins Quora To Answer Obamacare Queries > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Mar 24, 2014 7:54 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Mar 24, 2014 7:54 PM UTC President Obama has joined the question and answer site[ Quora](http://blog.quora.com/President-Barack-Obama-Answers-Affordable-Care-Act-Questions-on-Quora) to answer questions about the Affordable Care Act, as the March 31 deadline looms to sign up for individual health insurance under the law. Quora is a platform where experts and public figures can provide meatier answers to people’s questions. It provides more space than say, a tweet. Obama became the first “verified” user of the site, and so far he has answered questions like, “How will ACA affect how young people make career and job choices?”[USA Today says](http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/03/24/obama-joins-quora-first-verified-profile/6827763/) the White House confirmed that Obama himself wrote the answers to the questions: “As we continue our efforts to enroll as many Americans as possible for quality, affordable health insurance ahead of the March 31st deadline, the President’s goal is to meet people – especially young adults – where they are.” The move is part of Obama’s outreach campaign to encourage the uninsured to buy health care plans through the ACA’s exchanges. Also on Monday, Obama was[ interviewed](http://univisionamerica.univision.com/blogs/article/2014-03-24/interview-of-president-barack-obama-at-el-bueno-la-mala-y-el-feo) by Univision radio show, “El Bueno, La Mala, y El Feo,” telling listeners, “Latinos are most likely not to have health insurance. And the problem is if you get in an accident, if you get sick, or somebody in your family gets sick, you could end up being bankrupt. You could lose everything you have because you’re trying to pay off the medical bills.” Obama also recently [appeared on the comedy show](http://time.com/19645/obama-zach-galifianakis-between-two-ferns/) “Between Two Ferns” hosted by Zach Galifianakis. USA Today reports that some of the other public figures to get verified accounts on Quora today are Mark Cuban, Ashton Kutcher, Sheryl Sandberg, and Cory Booker. \[[_USA Today_](http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/03/24/obama-joins-quora-first-verified-profile/6827763/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/35927/obama-quora-affordable-care-act/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/35927/obama-quora-affordable-care-act/"},"headline":"President Obama Joins Quora To Answer Obamacare Queries","datePublished":"2014-03-24T19:54:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:56:00.790Z","description":"As the March 31 deadline to buy individual health care plans approaches, the president continues his outreach campaign to encourage the uninsured to sign up","url":"https://time.com/35927/obama-quora-affordable-care-act/","keywords":["Health Care","Affordable Care Act","President Obama"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/health-care/","name":"Health Care"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/35927/obama-quora-affordable-care-act/","name":"President Obama Joins Quora To Answer Obamacare Queries"}}]}] ```