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Author: Stephen Davidson
ISBN : B00CUAC0FQ
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A New Era in U.S. Health Care demystifies the Affordable Care Act for unfamiliar readers, setting an agenda for lawmakers and the health industry alike. It focuses on four key issues that will determine the success of this 2010 legislation: the use of state-run Medicaid programs to expand access to insurance; the implementation process; the creation of health insurance exchanges; and the introduction of a new organizational form, accountable care organizations.
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- File Size: 919 KB
- Print Length: 128 pages
- Publisher: Stanford University Press (April 24, 2013)
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CUAC0FQ
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This is moderately informative on the features of the PPACA. It's a description of features purporting to cover 3 aspects: access, cost, and quality. It focuses on four key issues:
use of state-run Medicaid programs to expand access to insurance,
the implementation process,
creation of health insurance exchanges,
and introduction of a new organizational form, accountable care organizations (ACOs).
The book starts with a summary of health care problems in the U.S. He points out how prior programs since Medicare and Medicaid have resulted in legislative failure. Davidson justifies the Act on the basis of the Commerce clause (I,9) and the overused general 'necessary and proper' clause (I,8). He says no one challenges that health care is a factor in interstate commerce. It's a triviality as the S.C. has effectively ruled that any purchase anywhere affects interstate commerce. He neglects to mention the Roberts opinion upholding the ACA by Congress right to tax. He characterizes opposition to the ACA by reference to leftist historian Richard Hofstadter's "paranoid style" in America.
He covers payments by state Medicaid funds ,nothing on effect of the ACA on solvency of the funds and little on the new concept of health care exchanges. The book starts with a summary of health care problems in the U.S. He points out how prior programs since Medicare and Medicaid have resulted in legislative failure.
Does Davidson's information come from reading the Act or is he compiling the research of others? I had to google the new terminology to attain a degree of understanding, difficult to glean from the book. As with many bureaucratic endeavors, understanding is dependent on a bunch of new alphabet soup. An acronym list or an index is a necessity here.
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