In this issue ofJAMA, President Barack Obama describes many of the features and highlights the results of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).1Aligning federal payments more with demonstrated value and encouraging a move away from a fee-for-service model to managed care has helped reinforce or change...
AFFORDABLE CARE ACTEllen Kadransky
A key feature of the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) is the way in which responsibility for affordable health care coverage is shared between stakeholders. Companies that employ 50 or more people may be considered "applicable large employer
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, allows you to buy health insurance through federal and state Health Insurance Marketplaces. The ACA provides subsidies to most people who buy Marketplace plans. The ACA created new consumer protections, like prohibiting discrimination if you have a pre...
The Affordable Care Act is designed to provide all Americans with access to health insurance at reasonable rates, while working to lower costs, improving the quality of health care and improving the coordination of such care. Veterans have a few options to meet the terms of minimum essential ...
What the Affordable Care Act Says About ReadmissionsH&HN Staff
Tip of the Iceberg ! Affordable Care Act: A process; not an event. ! Health: ACA agenda translates into increased access to healthcare for millions of vulnerable Americans, thus requiring more providers and more cost-quality care. ! Care: Patient ...
This study determines whether the dependent coverage provision of the Affordable Care Act was associated with changes in payment for birth, prenatal care,
Before 2010’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) took effect in 2014, we talked to an insurance agent who gathered our medical histories and submitted them to insurers for consideration. Despite two major surgeries, I was deemed insurable. My wife, due to a congenital condition that had never caused...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has garnered a lot of debate since its implementation in 2010. The market continues to change as the healthcare reform debate continues. Initially, many health insurance companies—lacking the information they needed to ensure their financial stability—left the ACA’...