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What People Don’t Realize About the Affordable Care Act
Drew Altman, in The Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank, discusses what people don’t realize about the ACA: it is engineered for variation and it is up to Congress and the states to learn from that variation.
Column Read PostHealth Affairs Blog: Development Assistance for Global Health: Is the Funding Revolution Over?
A Health Affairs blog post by Jen Kates examines the future of development assistance for global health.
Column Read PostThose Long Lines To Enroll In The ACA
In this Policy Insight, Kaiser Family Foundation President and CEO Drew Altman discusses the need for community based outreach to enroll the long term uninsured.
Policy Insights Read PostA Tale of Two Siblings, the ACA, and the Supreme Court
In a column published on The Huffington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation President and CEO Drew Altman shows how the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to make the ACA Medicaid expansion a state option has upended the health insurance system for low and moderate income people in many states and discusses how the states and federal government can address the problem.
Column Read PostJAMA Forum: Judgment Day for the Affordable Care Act?
Larry Levitt’s March 2014 post on why there is no single judgment day for the Affordable Care Act is now available at The JAMA Forum.
Column Read PostObamacare: The Metrics In The News Are Mostly Wrong
In this Policy Insights, Kaiser Family Foundation President and CEO Drew Altman explains how the measures of success for year one of Obamacare used in media coverage and national discussion is the equivalent of judging the local weather from national averages.
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