For decades, U.S. lawmakers struggled with how to ensure all Americans had health insurance. Every other developed country – and many less developed – had some kind of universal or near-universal coverage. On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – commonly shortened to Affordable Care Act (ACA), or, among opponents, “Obamacare.” Under the law, an estimated 32 million Americans will get coverage by 2019. Yet the complex, multi-part legislation remains highly divisive and misunderstood. Political and policy uncertainties may shadow, or threaten, implementation in the years to come.
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Feb
22
This webinar will look more closely at the role exchanges will have in covering small businesses – and how these new insurance markets may eventually prove attractive to larger businesses as well.
Mar
1
To help understand and reduce persistent health disparities, the health reform law requires, beginning in March 2012, any ongoing or new federal health program to collect and report racial, ethnic, and language data.
Mar
1
This briefing will help you better answer questions for your readers, viewers and listeners about many of the key decisions implementing health reform that are left to the states.
Mar
5
This AHCJ Washington, D.C., chapter event will feature conversations on health reform with representatives of some of the major national hospital advocacy organizations, including the American Hospital Association, the Association of America Medical Colleges, the National Association of Public Hospitals, and Ascension, the nation’s largest Catholic hospital system.
Mar
26
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments challenging congressional authority to mandate health insurance coverage and other provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
Oct
1
The health care reform law institutes changes, beginning Oct. 1, to standardize billing and requires health plans to begin implementing rules for the secure, confidential, electronic exchange of health information.
