Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: a primer for NeuroInterventionalists

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: a primer for neurointerventionalists.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the ACA, for short) became law on 23 March 2010. It represents the most significant transformation of the American healthcare system since Medicare and Medicaid. Essentials of ACA include: (1) a mandate for individuals and businesses requiring as a matter of law that nearly every American has an approved level of health insurance or pay a penalty;...

The 2010 "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act": a failing grade.

Danger invites rescue. The cry of distress is the summons to relief. Those words by Justice Cardozo in an opinion in 1921 certainly apply to the health law recently passed in Congress. It will be a disaster. It will not save money. It will put more bureaucrats between the doctor and the patient and it will reduce access to care. Certainly quality is not improved if one can’t find a doctor in th...

Predicting the Effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010

With the onset of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, more than 30 million Americans will become newly insured. This paper predicts how this change will impact patients as well as the health care system by examining the use of health care services by people those newly insured under Medicare. I find those with diabetes and other chronic conditions prefer to go to doctors in ...

The Era of Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act

On June 28, 2012 the United States Supreme Court upheld the Patient Rights and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010. The individual mandate and the extension of Medicaid eligibility are the primary components of ACA and have drawn a great deal of attention from the media and public. However, little attention has focused on how ACA will affect ve...

Cost Containment and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act