Forbes September 3, 2019
Bruce Japsen

Physicians who may have been skeptical of the Affordable Care Act when it was first signed into law by President Barack Obama and in its early rollout years have changed their tune over a five-year period, a new analysis shows.

A majority of U.S. physicians see the ACA as a “net positive” for the U.S. healthcare system, according to a study of doctor “reactions to ACA implementation” led by researchers of the Mayo Clinic, who wrote a seven-page analysis in the Journal Health Affairs.

“A slight majority of U.S. physicians, after experiencing the ACA’s implementation, believed that it is a net positive for U.S. health care,” Mayo Clinic researchers Lindsey Riordan, Jon Tilburt and several colleagues from across the country...

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