...: Critical Next Steps under the Affordable Care Act . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2013 . 128 pp. $12.99 paper. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 will likely generate a library shelf of books and doctoral...

...Susan Giaimo A primary goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is to reduce the number of uninsured by making health insurance more affordable for small businesses and individuals. Toward that end, the PPACA encourages the creation of nonprofit, member-owned health insurance...

...Debra Stulberg The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has great potential to improve reproductive health through several components: expanded coverage of people of reproductive age; required coverage of many reproductive health services; and insurance exchange structures...

...Jonathan Oberlander Abstract The Obama administration has confronted a formidable array of obstacles in implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA has overcome those obstacles to substantially expand access to health insurance, though significant problems with its approach have emerged...

...Daniel Skinner Abstract This article examines an important but largely overlooked dimension of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), namely, its significance for Native American health care. The author maintains that reading the ACA against the politics of Native American health...

... with the White House to fashion the health reform legislation, it would be reasonable to expect his account of enactment to provide some juicy insider perspectives on the politics and personalities. Although this reviewer found bits of chapter 6, “Enacting the Affordable Care Act,” interesting, most...

...Heather Howard; Chad Shearer Abstract Many states have worked tirelessly over the past two years to develop health insurance exchanges and prepare for the expansion of their Medicaid programs in order to meet the requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Programs to expand...

...Tiffany D. Joseph Abstract The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed to provide more affordable health coverage to Americans beginning in 2014. Modeled after the 2006 Massachusetts health care reform, the ACA includes an individual mandate, Medicaid expansion, and health...

...Joseph White Abstract Cost control choices for the Affordable Care Act are a logical topic for this special issue because of both the policy and political importance of the choices and what they illustrate about the use of policy analysis in policy making. This article argues that the common trope...

... access option. policy diffusion Affordable Care Act ideological polarization After decades of state experiments with varying policies of health insurance coverage, the Obama administration and Democratic Congress took a major step in 2010 toward nationwide universal coverage...

...Simon F. Haeder; David L. Weimer Abstract The Affordable Care Act (ACA) seeks to change fundamentally the US health care system. The responses of states have been diverse and changing. What explains these diverse and dynamic responses? We examine the decision making of states concerning...

...Laurence Seidman Abstract Many problems facing the Affordable Care Act would disappear if the nation were instead implementing Medicare for All — the extension of Medicare to every age group. Every American would be automatically covered for life. Premiums would be replaced with a set of Medicare...

... Press . Intergovernmental Politics Federalism and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: The Founding Fathers Would Not Be Surprised Michael S. Sparer...

... the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Scott L. Greer University of Michigan Federalism, in principle, combines policy innovation with stability: state involvement adapts policy to local conditions...

.... 2009 . What the Placebo Effect Can Teach Us about Health Care Reform: An Interview with Peter Orszag . Slate , June 29 . www.slate.com/id/2221159/entry/2221807/ . Foster R. S. 2010 . Estimated Financial Effects of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” as Amended . April...

.../411997_health_reform_smallbusiness.pdf (accessed October 1, 2010) . Collins S. R. Davis K. Nicholson J. L. Stremikis K. . 2010 . Realizing Health Reform's Potential: Small Businesses and the Affordable Care Act of 2010 . September . New York : Commonwealth Fund . www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files...

... . Foster R. S. 2010 . Memorandum, Estimated Financial Effects of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” as Amended , April 22 . www.cms.gov/ActuarialStudies/Downloads/PPACA_2010-04-22.pdf . Hackbarth G. M. 2009 . Medicare Payment Policy. Testimony presented by the Medicare...

... . Health Affairs 29 : 1293 – 1298 . Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Cost-­Containment Choices: The Case for Incentive-Based­ Approaches Mark V. Pauly University...

..., and the Study of Politics . American Political Science Review 94 : 251 – 267 . America’s Critical Juncture: The Affordable Care Act and Its Reverberations Lawrence R. Jacobs...

...Mollyann Brodie; Claudia Deane; Sarah Cho One year after passage, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains a divisive topic. Most publicly released polls on the law have focused on the views of Americans as a whole. But with much of the responsibility of implementation lying...