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...Peter Muennig; Bhaven Sampat; Nicholas Tilipman; Lawrence D. Brown; Sherry A. Glied The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148), or ACA, requires that U.S. citizens either purchase health insurance or pay a fine. To offset the financial burden for lower-income households, it...

...Nicholas Bagley; Helen Levy Abstract Starting in 2014, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will require private insurance plans sold in the individual and small-group markets to cover a roster of “essential health benefits.” Precisely which benefits should count as essential, however, was left to the...

... . Delegated Governance in the Affordable Care Act Kimberly J. Morgan George Washington University Andrea Louise Campbell Massachusetts Institute of...

... . 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 of...

... 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...

... . Editor’s Note Affordable for Whom? In March 2011 the American public made it through another budget negotiation just in the nick of time without losing the basic function of its federal government. We’re safe, but no one feels safe. Entitlements are boldly on the...

...Brendan Saloner; Norman Daniels In this essay we argue that the concept of affordable health insurance is rooted in a social obligation to protect fair equality of opportunity. Specifically, health insurance plays a limited but significant role in protecting opportunity in two ways: it helps keep...

...Carole Roan Gresenz; Miriam J. Laugesen; Ambeshie Yesus; José J. Escarce Affordability is integral to the success of health care reforms aimed at ensuring universal access to health insurance coverage, and affordability determinations have major policy and practical consequences. This article...

... . Perspective The Need for Public Deliberation: Giving the Public a Voice on Affordable Health Insurance Fay Lomax Cook Northwestern University Affordability is a key...

...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...

...Anne-Laure Beaussier The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was a major legislative achievement of the 111th Congress. This law structurally reforms the US health care system by encouraging universal health care coverage through regulated competition among private insurance companies...

... a tax in the first instance. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 The Supreme Court’s PPACA Decision Wearing the Crown of Solomon? Chief Justice Roberts and the Affordable Care Act “Tax...

...Adam Sonfield; Harold A. Pollack After nearly a century of failed or incomplete legislative efforts, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), enacted by Congress in March 2010, establishes the principle that every American is entitled to affordable and effective health insurance...

...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 that...

... nine nationally representative surveys, this article examines whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is cultivating a similar cross-class constituency. The results show that middle-income Americans are less likely than low-income Americans to say the ACA has helped them personally so far. On the other...

...Philip Rocco; Simon F. Haeder Abstract The implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been a politically volatile process. The ACA's institutional design and delayed feedback effects created a window of opportunity for its partisan opponents to launch challenges at both the federal and...

... analysis Affordable Care Act politics of health policy How did the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which extended health insurance coverage to something on the order of 6 percent of the American population, become a fulcrum of ferocious political opposition to the Obama presidency? Why was the level of...