The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 was the most significant overhaul of the U.S. health care system since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. Ten years ago this month, key parts of the ACA went into effect.States like Arkansas are expanding health insurance coverage through Medicaid expansion for low-income adults. selected this option — and financial assistance to purchase insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace for many people who fall into the gap between Medicaid eligibility and employment-based insurance.in guest column On Talk Business & Politics, ACHI Health Policy Director Craig Wilson examines how this law has affected Arkansans over the past decade.
Wilson examines how Arkansans' health insurance products and shopping experience have been affected by the ACA, and how the federal health care reform law created a one-stop health insurance marketplace, advanced health literacy, and Discuss whether insurance companies are prohibited from denying coverage based on prior health insurance. Among other things, the existing situation.
For related discussion, see . guest column ACHI President and CEO Dr. Joe Thompson writes for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette about what Arkansas' Medicaid expansion program has accomplished and what it has not accomplished since coverage of the program began 10 years ago. I'm looking back.
