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On December 24, 2009, the Senate passed an alternative health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590). [2] In 2010, the House abandoned its reform bill in favor of amending the Senate bill (via the reconciliation process) in the form of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
Out-of-pocket costs rose, reducing demand for healthcare services. [35] The proportion of workers with employer-sponsored health insurance requiring a deductible climbed to about three-quarters in 2012 from about half in 2006. [36] ACA changes [36] that aim to shift the healthcare system from paying-for-quantity to paying-for-quality. Some ...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and informally as Obamacare, is a landmark U.S. federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.
Bill Clinton attempted to clarify comments he made slamming the Affordable Care Act as the "craziest thing in the world."
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 ...
In May 2011, the state of Vermont became the first state to pass legislation establishing a single-payer health care system. The legislation, known as Act 48, establishes health care in the state as a "human right" and lays the responsibility on the state to provide a health care system which best meets the needs of the citizens of Vermont.
The past three months have been nothing short of organized chaos when it comes to the ongoing reform of our health-care system. Obamacare, which has been a widely polarizing law based on your ...
But it agreed with the plaintiffs that the members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which under Obamacare was given the job of issuing preventive-care recommendations, were appointed in ...