THE IMPACTS OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT: HOW REASONABLE ARE THE PROJECTIONS?

@article{Gruber2011THEIO,
  title={THE IMPACTS OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT: HOW REASONABLE ARE THE PROJECTIONS?},
  author={Jonathan H Gruber},
  journal={National Tax Journal},
  year={2011},
  volume={64},
  pages={893 - 908}
}
  • J. Gruber
  • Published 1 June 2011
  • Medicine
  • National Tax Journal
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the most comprehensive reform of the U.S. medical system in at least 45 years. The ACA transforms the non-group insurance market in the United States, mandates that most residents have health insurance, significantly expands public insurance and subsidizes private insurance coverage, raises revenues from a variety of new taxes, and reduces and reorganizes spending under the nation's largest health insurance plan, Medicare. Projecting the… 
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