The US health-care reform act became law on March 23, 2010. Within a decade, this landmark USdollar940 billion bill will revolutionise how medical care in the USA is delivered.The big winners of this reform are, of course, those who are currently uninsured. Coverage by 2014 will encompass 32 million uninsured Americans who had previously been too sick or too poor to qualify. By 2019, 95% of the US population will be insured. Although the bill establishes an individual mandate for carrying health insurance, it will not provide universal healthcare coverage. It will leave 22 million uninsured, some of whom are illegal residents and ineligible. The rest are young and healthy Americans who prefer to pay the government-imposed penalty for not having insurance.
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