Beyond King v. Burwell: How New Prices and Payments are Changing the Way We'll Receive Healthcare under the Affordable Care Act
Category: POLITICS
In the wake of the recent King v. Burwell Supreme Court decision to uphold subsidies for the 34 state health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act, it's worth understanding why losing them would've made insurance for nearly 6.4 million Americans unaffordable. It boils down to two numbers: the cost of delivering care and the rate that hospitals are paid to do so.
By Nisarg Patel, ContributorGraduate student, Harvard University, 2015-07-07