The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010

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...

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 ...

Cost Containment and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Gainsharing and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

“Gainsharing” is a business practice that can reduce costs and increase efficiency while engaging and rewarding front-line workers, those who work most directly with customers or with the product a company manufactures. Although the practice reportedly began as early as the nineteenth century, it became popular in the 1930s in the steel manufacturing industry. While several different forms of p...

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...