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.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
How to Use This Book.
Foreword.
Introduction.
Passage and Implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
1: Did President Obama and Democrats “Ram” the Affordable Care Act through Congress and into Law?.
2: Did the Affordable Care Act Include “Backroom Deals” with Industry to Ensure Passage?.
3: Did the Affordable Care Act Include Major Provisions and Elements That Had Previously Received Support from Republicans?.
4: Did the Failure of the Initial Affordable Care Act Website Rollout Threaten the Future of the Affordable Care Act Itself?.
5: Do Affordable Care Act Implementation Delays Prove the Law Is a Failure?.
6: Did Congress Intend to Provide Subsidies Only to Individuals Purchasing Coverage through State-Based Exchanges—and Not the Federal Exchange?.
Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Federal and State Budgets.
7: Did the Affordable Care Act Increase the Size of the Federal Deficit?.
8: Does the Price Tag of the Affordable Care Act Exceed $2 Trillion?.
9: Is the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansion Crafted So That Individual States Bear Very Little of the Cost?.
10: Can the Reductions in Medicare Costs Contained in the Affordable Care Act Finance Coverage Expansion and Extend the Life of the Program?.
11: Is the Affordable Care Act Bending the Health Care “Cost Curve”?.
12: Will the Affordable Care Act's Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) Result in Rationing in Medicare?.
Consumer Choices and the Affordable Care Act.
13: Were People Satisfied with Their Insurance Policies Able to Keep Those Policies under the Affordable Care Act?.
14: Did the Affordable Care Act Contain Provisions for “Death Panels”?.
15: Will the Affordable Care Act's New Entity on Comparative Effectiveness Research Lead to Rationing of Care?.
16: Under the Affordable Care Act, Do Individuals Have More Limited Choices in the Physician
