Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
ISSN
0870-9025
Publisher
Nacional de Saúde Pública
Language
en-US
Abstract
This article summarizes the major elements of the ACA's insurance reforms and how they affect responsibility for making decisions about the health care that people receive. A key example of the difficulty of allocating decision making responsibility is the effort to define a minimum benefit package for insurance plans, called essential health benefits. While the ACA should achieve its goal of near-universal access to care, it leaves in place a multiplicity of processes and decision-makers for determining individual treatment. As a result, decisions about what care is provided are likely to remain, much as they are today, divided among government agencies, private insurers, private employers, and the courts.
Recommended Citation
Wendy K. Mariner,
Allocating responsibility for health care decisions under the United States Affordable Care Act
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in
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Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública
144
(2014).
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