2. Healthcare Reform Policy Issue Report and Annotated Bibliography

Order Description

2. Healthcare Reform Policy Issue Report and Annotated Bibliography: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148 and companion legislation PL-11-152, commonly known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), will have significant and far-reaching effects on the nation’s health care system. With implementation of this large and complex law now underway, your major assignment for this course is to select and study one aspect of the ACA’s implementation and share your findings. You will find articles in recent issues of many of the health care journals listed in the bibliography, major urban/national newspapers (LA Times, NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal), the Internet (see policy and stakeholder web sites) and general interest magazines such as Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Business Week, etc. Full text of the enacted legislation is available at https://housedocs.house.gov/energycommerce/ppacacon.pdf.

The Kaiser Family Foundation website, https://healthreform.kff.org/, has a wealth of information on health reform, other major health policy issues, and the principal publicly funded health insurance programs.

The Commonwealth Fund has a site devoted to tracking health reform implementation: https://www.healthreformgps.org/.