Ten Years Later: Reflections on Critics' Worst-Case Scenarios for the Affordable Care Act

Stacey McMorrow is a principal research associate in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute. She uses quantitative methods to study the factors that affect individual health insurance coverage and access to care, and she has extensive experience analyzing Medicaid eligibility policies and coverage expansions under the Affordable Care Act. She has also worked on topics related to women's health and access to preventive and reproductive health services.

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Linda J. Blumberg is an institute fellow in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute, which she joined in 1992. She is an expert on private health insurance (employer and nongroup), health care financing, and health system reform. Her recent work includes extensive research related to the Affordable Care Act, including estimating the implications of repeal and replace proposals, interpreting and analyzing the effects of particular policies, and delineating strategies for filling shortcomings in current law.

John Holahan is an institute fellow in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where he previously served as center director for more than 30 years. His recent work focuses on health reform, the uninsured, health expenditure growth, and developing proposals for health system reform. He examines the coverage, costs, and economic impact of the Affordable Care Act, including the costs of Medicaid expansion as well as the macroeconomic effects of the law.