The U.S. Health Care System: Group Question
What is the likely impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on healthcare access, cost, and quality?
Questions to be addressed in your research presentation are:
1. Who is newly covered and how is this achieved?
2. What are exchanges and how are different States approaching them?
3. What does the Medicaid program have to do with the ACA? How will health insurance premiums be affected?
4. What variables are in play in the political debate over the impact of the ACA on cost, access, and quality of care?
5. What are some of the key implementation challenges facing state and national policy makers?
6. On balance, is the ACA a good or bad law? Provide a clear, fact-based, non-emotinal justification for your conclusion.
The presentation will be posted online using appropriate web-based tool.