Texas v United States: The Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional and Will Remain So

The Affordable Care Act is constitutional.

As this commentary first appeared on www.annals.org, the Supreme Court was hearing arguments in one of the most important social policy cases of the past several decades: the constitutionality of the requirement that individuals obtain minimum health insurance coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The “individual mandate” is the centerpiece of the ACA, and removin...

Prevention in the United States Affordable Care Act.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law on March 23, 2010 and will fundamentally alter health care in the United States for years to come. The US is currently one of the only industrialized countries without universal health insurance. The new law expands existing public insurance for the poor. It also provides financial credits to low income individuals and some small businesses to p...

The real constitutional problem with the Affordable Care Act.

The Affordable Care Act in the United States and HIV Disease: Past, Present, and Future.

From its beginning, the AIDS epidemic crystallized some of the major flaws of the American health care system. Most private health insurance was associated with employment, and job loss meant insurance loss. Private insurers refused new coverage for people with HIV infection. Medicaid, an important program for uninsured people with low income, was limited to only those in certain categories (eg...

Why is health care so expensive in the United States?

In the summer of 1998, I accepted what likely has turned out to be my final professional position in medical physics. When I arrived, my health insurance cost was about $240.00 per month, covering only my spouse and myself. Today, the cost for approximately the same policy has exploded to over $900.00 per month. None of you would be surprised at this; almost everyone in the United States has se...