Main description:

This book examines the landmark 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) from the perspective of health policy research as translational science.  It delineates a new perspective about the creation and potential impact of the ACA and guides the development of health policy that is supported by best evidence that, in turn, transforms into practice, policy, and public benefit. Told by those involved in the creation and implementation of the ACA, the book reviews the history and impact of this ground-breaking legislation and recommends priorities, objectives, and next steps for translational research as the ACA is implemented.

The book includes coverage of these topics:

·         Objectives of the ACA

·         Analysis of data collected from healthcare reform programs in Vermont and Massachusetts to inform national implementation of the ACA

·         Engaging the public in, and building support for, ACA implementation

·         Interplay of federal, state, and local healthcare policy decisions arising from the enforcement of the ACA       

Featuring contributions from nationally renowned leaders in healthcare policy, this book adds to the public conversation about the ACA and its role in shaping health policy and contributes to a more realistic, nuanced, and productive understanding of this landmark legislation by physicians, policy makers, and the public. It also provides a framework for next steps in continuing to improve U.S. health policy.

Feature:

Written by nationally renowned health care leaders

Discusses the Affordable Care Act from a translational perspective

Timely and concise​

Back cover:

This book examines the landmark 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) from the perspective that health policy innovation is translational research directed at improving health.  It delineates a new perspective about the creation and potential impact of the ACA and guides the development of health policy that is supported by best evidence that, in turn, transforms into practice, policy, and public benefit. Told by those involved in the creation and implementation of the ACA, the book reviews the history and impact of this ground-breaking legislation and recommends priorities, objectives, and next steps for translational research as the ACA is implemented.

Featuring contributions from nationally renowned leaders in healthcare policy, this book adds to the public conversation about the ACA and its role in shaping health policy and contributes to a more realistic, nuanced, and productive understanding of this ground-breaking legislation by physicians, policy makers, and the public. It also provides a framework for next steps in continuing to improve U.S. health policy.

Contents:

1.            Introduction: The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment

         Harry P. Selker

Section I         Implementing Change: Objectives of the ACA                                                                             

2.      Objectives of the ACA

         James Roosevelt, Jr, Terence Burke, and Paul Jean

3.      Delivering on the Promise of the Affordable Care Act                   

         Kavita Patel and Mallory West 

4.      What We Got (and What Might Have Been): A Distinctively American Approach                             

Shawn Bishop

Section II        Don’t Get Mad, Get Data: Conducting the Experiment

5.      Commentary to Section II: Conducting the Experiment

          Brian Rosman

6.      The Affordable Care Act as an Experiment: Data We Have, Expect to Have, and Should Have, from a Vermont Pilot Study                                        

         Anya Rader Wallack

7.      The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation: Its Purpose, Processes, and Desired Outcomes                                                                        

         Harry P. Selker

8.      The Dream of a National Health Information Technology

         Infrastucture                                                                           

         Craig Brammer

9.      Results from a Massachusetts Pilot Study                            

         JudyAnn Bigby

Section III      Make it a People Issue: Engaging the Public                                 

10.    Commentary to Section III: Engaging the Public

         June S. Wasser

11.    The Value Proposition for Individuals and the Public                    

         Bruce E. Landon and Stuart Altman

12.    Messaging, Medicine, and Obamacare                      

         Ceci Connolly

Section IV      From Personal to Political to Policy: What Next?             

13.    Commentary to Section IV: From Personal to Political to Policy: What Next?

         James Roosevelt, Jr, Terence Burke, Paul Jean 

14.    Supreme Court Review of the ACA and Political Gamesmanship                                    

         Shawn Bishop

15.    Medicaid Expansion Challenges States                                 

         JudyAnn Bigby

16.    Next Experiments in ACA Legislation and Policy

         John McDonough

17.    Epilogue                                                                                               

         Harry P. Selker