Health Insurer Market Behavior after the Affordable Care Act: Assessing the Need for Monitoring, Targeted Enforcement, and Regulatory Reform
Journal: eYLS (Yale Law School)
Year: 2016

The primary goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ACA") is to connect Americans with affordable, medically necessary health care. The first step toward achieving that goal is insurance expansion. The ACA's first two years of insurance expansion have allowed millions of Americans to join the ranks of the insured. The second step recognizes that the content of health coverage matters, as appropriate insurance connects consumers with necessary care. The ACA therefore requires mos