Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2014
Journal Title
Houston Law Review
ISSN
0018-6694
Abstract
This Commentary acknowledges and applauds efforts to understand the mechanisms of insurance reform contained in the ACA and to evaluate their success or failure. But the Commentary’s principal purpose is to examine the pros and cons of connecting insurance reform to health care and health—the pen and the french fry—and to convey the importance to the country of moving beyond insurance reform as quickly as possible. The Commentary begins by describing the potential synergies among the three health policy domains and offering reasons why the ACA sought to make simultaneous changes. It then identifies the vulnerabilities that are revealed in the Act’s combined approach. It concludes with a few observations about ways of improving both health care delivery and health, while expressing the hope that the ACA’s indisputably sweeping ambition will not be its downfall.
First Page
1081
Last Page
1113
Num Pages
33
Volume Number
51
Issue Number
4
Publisher
University of Houston Law Center
Recommended Citation
William M. Sage,
Putting Insurance Reform in the ACA's Rear-View Mirror,
51
Hous. L. Rev.
1081
(2014).
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