The Past and Future of the Affordable Care Act

President Barack Obama has provided a comprehensive assessment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which as he indicates is the most comprehensive health care reform since Medicare. In 1965, Medicare passed in the House with a 313-115 vote and in the Senate with a 68-21 vote. By contrast, the ACA bare...

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Published in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2016-08, Vol.316 (5), p.497-499
Main Authors: Skinner, Jonathan, Chandra, Amitabh
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Delivery of Health Care - trends
Health care policy
Health Care Reform - trends
Health insurance
Humans
Insurance coverage
Insurance, Health - trends
Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 2010-US
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Reimbursement Mechanisms - trends
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Summary:President Barack Obama has provided a comprehensive assessment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which as he indicates is the most comprehensive health care reform since Medicare. In 1965, Medicare passed in the House with a 313-115 vote and in the Senate with a 68-21 vote. By contrast, the ACA barely reached the filibuster-proof threshold of 60 votes in the Senate and passed the House with a 219-212 vote. As Pres Obama has chronicled, that the ACA passed at all, let alone survived multiple Supreme Court and Congressional challenges, is a political miracle. Here, Skiner and Chandra examine the past and future of ACA.
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2016.10158