Health Affairs December 12, 2016
Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Nearly a century after Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party first called for health insurance reform, the United States has made major advances in access, quality, and affordability.

In the six years since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law, 20 million more people have health insurance, and, for the first time in our history, more than nine out of every 10Americans are insured. Growth in both premiums for employer coverage and overall Medicare spending has also slowed. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Actuaries now project that we are on track to spend $2.6 trillion less over the ACA’s first decade than was projected without the ACA back in 2010.

Even with this slow down, any...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Congress / White House, Employer, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, HHS, HITECH, MACRA, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Regulations, Self-insured, Value Based
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