Sunday, April 27, 2014

Travels In Hyperreality: What If Bipartisan ACA Fixes Were Possible? – Health Affairs Blog

Travels In Hyperreality: What If Bipartisan ACA Fixes Were Possible? – Health Affairs Blog:



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Bipartisan amendments to the Affordable Care Act already occurring



Since enactment of the Affordable Care Act in March 2010, a strange, relatively unnoticed phenomenon has occurred: Congress has passed bipartisan changes to it. These amendments were generally to such esoteric components of the law that they dodged the political block-aid that otherwise surrounds it.
But what would happen if things were different? If Congress could act to change the ACA in a meaningful way, what would it do? Here we briefly review the previous sub rosa changes to launch into a broader examination of macro ACA reforms that have a fighting chance of enactment in the not too distant future.

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