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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the most comprehensive health reform legislation enacted by the United States in decades. Though focused on improving health care access and insurance coverage for millions of Americans, the Act also includes a number of preventive and community health provisions that impact public health. While the ACA is responsible for providing health coverage for more than 20 million Americans, its future is uncertain.

Access to broadband is increasingly being recognized as an important social determinant of health; however, approximately 34 million people in the U.S. still lack broadband…