Mar ‘11
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The A.C.A. is Law
It is historic health policy in a nation whose health care costs on average are two to three times those of other countries such as Japan or Germany, despite the fact only 52 percent of 306 million Americans always have insurance to make the costly care possible.
It’s historic because the chance of bending the cost curve requires universal insurance protection, a health insurance market reform strategy, a care quality strategy accompanied by payment policy focused on accountability, rewards for health improvement and a reliance on local, state and regional health care systems to drive behavior change.
Today all of that is being threatened by a rare combination of the Republican forces of repeal and Democratic forces of ineptness in the implementation of the law.
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