The Affordable Care Act
Subtitle: examining the facts
By: Purva H. Rawal,  PhD ; foreword by Len Nichols, PhD
Series: Contemporary debates; Contemporary debates
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781440834424
Subjects: Health insurance; Health care reform; Cost of Medical care
Description: "This is the first reference book to provide a detailed assessment of the Affordable Care Act, explaining the realities and myths surrounding one of the most divisive political struggles in recent U.S. history. Uses nonpartisan sources of information that include studies and reports to assess the claims, beliefs, and assumptions about Obamacare Draws from credible research sources--such as the Center for Disease Control and the Government Accounting Office--to question or uphold beliefs Provides an evidence-based examination of dozens of the most prominent claims about the Affordable Care Act"--

"Few laws have generated as much intense emotional and ongoing controversy as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The law is the culmination of a hundred years of debate, discussion, and attempts at offering near-universal coverage in the United States. Lessons learned from the past, fleeting political majorities, and new policy imperatives to improve quality and reduce ever-rising costs created an opportune policy window in 2009-2010 to pass one of the most expansive - and potentially impactful - pieces of social legislation in our nation's history. However, the very reasons that made health reform necessary and so difficult to pass are also the same reasons that the ACA has divided the nation - both politically and culturally"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act; title: Impact of the Affordable Care Act on federal and state budgets; title: Consumer choices and the Affordable Care Act; title: Employer-sponsored insurance and the Affordable Care Act; title: Coverage for individuals under the Affordable Care Act; title: The health care industry and the Affordable Care Act; title: Individual and community health and the Affordable Care Act; title: Taxes and the Affordable Care Act.