Commonwealth Fund February 26, 2020
David Blumenthal, M.D., Sara R. Collins, Elizabeth Fowler

The ACA has reduced the number of uninsured people to historically low levels and helped more people access health care services, especially low-income people and people of color.

The Issue

It’s been 10 years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — one of the most important and controversial pieces of health care legislation in U.S. history. In the first of two health policy reports for the New England Journal of Medicine, the Commonwealth Fund’s David Blumenthal, M.D., Sara Collins, and Elizabeth Fowler looked back at the ACA’s evolution, accomplishments, and shortfalls, focusing on the ACA’s federal subsidies and individual insurance market reforms designed to increase the number of people with affordable, high-quality insurance. A second...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), Govt Agencies, Insurance, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Provider, Public Exchange
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