Access without Limits - Revisiting Barriers and Boundaries after the Affordable Care Act
Journal: OpenCommons - UConn (University of Connecticut)
Year: 2012

In the United States, the understanding of health care and relationships in the health care and health insurance settings has evolved over the last century. In the past, care for one's own health and the relationships between physicians and patients, hospitals and patients, and health insurers and insureds were understood as matters of private concern. Consequently, individuals were responsible for their own care, and parties voluntarily entered into such relationships relying upon private law,