Moving Forward From the Affordable Care Act to a Single-Payer System

Bibliographic Data

ID11033770
AuthorsAdam Gaffney (0000-0001-7326-0661, Adam Gaffney is with the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein are with the City University of New York School of Public Health at Hunter College, New York, NY, and the Harvard Medical School. Marcia Angell is with Harvard Medical School.), Steffie Woolhandler (0000-0002-8965-1058, Adam Gaffney is with the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein are with the City University of New York School of Public Health at Hunter College, New York, NY, and the Harvard Medical School. Marcia Angell is with Harvard Medical School.), Marcia Angell (Adam Gaffney is with the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein are with the City University of New York School of Public Health at Hunter College, New York, NY, and the Harvard Medical School. Marcia Angell is with Harvard Medical School.), David U Himmelstein (0000-0002-2394-4915, Adam Gaffney is with the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein are with the City University of New York School of Public Health at Hunter College, New York, NY, and the Harvard Medical School. Marcia Angell is with Harvard Medical School.)
Year2016
Volume106
Issue6
Pages987-988
Publication date2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2015.303157
PMID27148891
OpenAlexW2346362757
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited4

The authors discuss developments in the effort to achieve universal health care in the U.S. in 2016, particularly the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Also cited are the ruling by the Supreme Court upholding the legality of the ACA subsidies, the claim by the Congressional Budget Office that will still be 27 million Americans who will be uninsured under the ACA, and some recommendations to resolve the shortcomings of the ACA in terms of coverage and costs

Business · Health care · Health care reform · Health insurance · Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act · Political science · Principle of legality · Subsidy · Supreme court · Universal coverage · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Healthcare Policy and Management · Law · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Public Administration · Health Policy