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Health care reform is an evergreen topic that keeps thousands of health policy wonks busily wringing their hands. Yet, little meaningful reform ever takes place, while spending continually rises ...
On November 7, 2009, the House passed their version of a health insurance reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, 220–215, but this did not become law. On December 24, 2009, the Senate passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. [119] [120] President Obama signed this into law in March 2010.
A 2001 article in the public health journal Health Affairs studied fifty years of American public opinion of various health care plans and concluded that, while there appears to be general support of a "national health care plan," poll respondents "remain satisfied with their current medical arrangements, do not trust the federal government to ...
In the article, Obama reviews the effects of his signature health care reform law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, widely known as "Obamacare". He concludes that since the law took effect, 20 million more Americans have gained health insurance under it, and the uninsurance rate has dropped to 9.1% (as of 2015). [8]
In this video, as part of The Motley Fool's "Ask a Fool" series, Motley Fool health-care analyst David Williamson takes a question from a Fool reader, who asks, "What does the new Health Care ...
One of the great shames of American health care is the nation’s abysmally high maternal mortality rate: maternal deaths increased 144% over the past two decades, from roughly 9.65 per 100,000 ...
There were a number of different health care reforms proposed during the Obama administration.Key reforms address cost and coverage and include obesity, prevention and treatment of chronic conditions, defensive medicine or tort reform, incentives that reward more care instead of better care, redundant payment systems, tax policy, rationing, a shortage of doctors and nurses, intervention vs ...
BOSTON — Community health center care providers urged legislators Tuesday to enact reform provisions that would shore up access to primary care and ensure the centers fulfill their mission of ...