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United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps

Overview of attention for article published in JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, August 2016
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Title
United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps
Published in
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, August 2016
DOI 10.1001/jama.2016.9797
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Barack Obama

Abstract

The Affordable Care Act is the most important health care legislation enacted in the United States since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. The law implemented comprehensive reforms designed to improve the accessibility, affordability, and quality of health care. To review the factors influencing the decision to pursue health reform, summarize evidence on the effects of the law to date, recommend actions that could improve the health care system, and identify general lessons for public policy from the Affordable Care Act. Analysis of publicly available data, data obtained from government agencies, and published research findings. The period examined extends from 1963 to early 2016. The Affordable Care Act has made significant progress toward solving long-standing challenges facing the US health care system related to access, affordability, and quality of care. Since the Affordable Care Act became law, the uninsured rate has declined by 43%, from 16.0% in 2010 to 9.1% in 2015, primarily because of the law's reforms. Research has documented accompanying improvements in access to care (for example, an estimated reduction in the share of nonelderly adults unable to afford care of 5.5 percentage points), financial security (for example, an estimated reduction in debts sent to collection of $600-$1000 per person gaining Medicaid coverage), and health (for example, an estimated reduction in the share of nonelderly adults reporting fair or poor health of 3.4 percentage points). The law has also begun the process of transforming health care payment systems, with an estimated 30% of traditional Medicare payments now flowing through alternative payment models like bundled payments or accountable care organizations. These and related reforms have contributed to a sustained period of slow growth in per-enrollee health care spending and improvements in health care quality. Despite this progress, major opportunities to improve the health care system remain. Policy makers should build on progress made by the Affordable Care Act by continuing to implement the Health Insurance Marketplaces and delivery system reform, increasing federal financial assistance for Marketplace enrollees, introducing a public plan option in areas lacking individual market competition, and taking actions to reduce prescription drug costs. Although partisanship and special interest opposition remain, experience with the Affordable Care Act demonstrates that positive change is achievable on some of the nation's most complex challenges.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 17 2%
Netherlands 4 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Unknown 955 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 161 16%
Researcher 119 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 101 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 96 10%
Student > Bachelor 74 8%
Other 218 22%
Unknown 212 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 234 24%
Social Sciences 100 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 93 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 50 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 30 3%
Other 214 22%
Unknown 260 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6978. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 November 2023.
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Outputs from JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
#15
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#4
of 381,978 outputs
Outputs of similar age from JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
#2
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