The promise and pitfalls of the federal health care reform law for nonprofit health care organizations and the people they serve.

摘要

In March 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law landmark federal health care reform legislation: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The law, by anyone's account, is both massive (about 2,400 pages) and complex. Thus there are bound to be areas that Congress addressed well, poorly, and somewhere in between.So what areas did Congress get particularly right or wrong with respect to expansion of coverage, reforming the private health insurance market, reforming health care delivery, and bending the cost curve? What areas especially need amending? What must nonprofit health care organizations do strategically in response to the law?