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...Daniel J. Hopkins Abstract The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a central issue dividing Republicans and Democrats for the decade following its 2010 enactment. As such, it offers key lessons about policy making and public opinion during a highly polarized political period. The author draws out some...

.... , and Doty Michelle M. 2019 . “ Health Insurance Coverage Eight Years after the ACA: Fewer Uninsured Americans and Shorter Coverage Gaps, but More Underinsured .” Commonwealth Fund , February . www.commonwealthfund.org/sites/default/files/2019-08...

...John E. McDonough Abstract The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a mosaic across a spectrum of health policy domains. The law contains hundreds of smaller and mostly unnoticed reforms aimed at nearly every segment of American health policy. Ten years later, these provisions include successes, failures...

... and hindering efforts to disrupt those arrangements or enact a single national health plan that would eliminate the fragmentation. Many analysts wondered if the United States could ever circumvent these daunting barriers to pass comprehensive reform. The enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010...

...Timothy Stoltzfus Jost; Katie Keith Abstract Despite its passage a decade ago, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains a politically divisive law. These political divisions have long been on display in Congress, in the White House, and in states. A long-standing stalemate in Congress—where...

... and be used only for the “truly” needy. This article highlights several paradoxes within Medicaid that have led to this growing bifurcation, and it concludes by shedding light on important targets for future reform. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Medicaid ACA politics...

... on the unusual politics and structure of US health care and how the US experience could bring more to international conversations about health care and the welfare state. After introducing the concept of casing—asking what the Affordable Care Act (ACA) might be a case of—the authors discuss different “casings...

...Michael S. Sparer; Lawrence D. Brown Abstract The ACA created a new type of nonprofit health insurance entity, the “Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan” (“co-op”). Most of the newly created co-ops soon lost money, and only 4 of the original 23 remain. We interviewed key stakeholders and conducted...

...Michael W. Sances; Joshua D. Clinton Abstract Context: The authors examined whether participation in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) differed by political partisanship. Answering this question is important for understanding how contentious elite-level decision making and discourse may affect policy...

...Samuel Trachtman Abstract Context: Political partisanship can influence whether individuals enroll in government programs. In particular, Republicans, ceteris paribus, are less likely to enroll in Affordable Care Act (ACA) individual marketplace insurance than Democrats. The logic of adverse...

..., but it is typically an incomplete one. Instead, advocates tend to rely on research that is either produced or packaged by an array of governmental and nongovernmental policy organizations. Does academic research matter in the policy process? The campaign to repeal the ACA offers an interesting vantage point...

...Jacob S. Hacker; Paul Pierson Abstract The 2017 GOP drive to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (ACA) arguably constituted the most ambitious effort to dismantle a social program in American history. Certainly it was the most ambitious to come so close to enactment, falling just three...

...Eric M. Patashnik; Jonathan Oberlander Abstract Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, conservatives have sought to undermine the law's entrenchment. While they have failed in their ambitious quest to repeal the ACA, opponents have succeeded in overturning one major provision...

... (ACA) to consumers. Data from Kantar Media's Campaign Media Analysis Group were used to analyze advertising content during three ACA open enrollment periods (fall 2013 to spring 2016). Few advertisement airings featured people who were elderly, disabled, or receiving care in a medical setting, and over...

...Colleen M. Grogan Abstract This commentary reviews the many different ways the Affordable Care Act (ACA) explicitly and implicitly attempted to improve health equity, and then assesses how the Republican proposal to repeal and replace the ACA (the proposed American Health Care Act) would impact...

...Laura Katz Olson Abstract Medicaid is fundamental to near universal health insurance coverage under the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA). Its goal of broadening the program to all households with income at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level was thwarted in 2012 by a Supreme Court...

... norm that commands consideration and deference when health policies, such as the ACA, are challenged. Next I argue that health has traditionally been treated as a legal norm, but that this norm has weakened in recent years, a trend evident in the Supreme Court's first two ACA cases. This erosion has...

...Colleen M. Grogan Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 was full of surprising...

... 2014. The purpose of the workshop was threefold: first, to increase communication and learning between state-level policy practitioners and health policy researchers; second, to address key ACA implementation issues that states are currently grappling with; and third, in response to these issues...

...Anuj Gangopadhyaya; Bowen Garrett Abstract Many politicians, policy makers, and analysts have debated whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would have negative effects on the labor market, such as reducing employment, earnings, or hours worked. Building on the existing literature, we investigated...