Pour beaucoup d’observateurs des politiques de santé États-Unis, les 28 millions personnes restant privées d’assurance maladie en 2020, dix ans après l’adoption l’Obamacare, la réforme du système emblématique premier mandat Barack Obama, constituent une démonstration d’échec, appelant à réforme. L&#82...

The U.S. presidential election of 2016 accentuated the divided perspectives on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly known as Obamacare. The perspectives included a pledge from then candidate Donald J. Trump to "repeal and replace on day one"; Republican congressional leaders' more temperate suggestions in the first weeks of the Trump administration to "repair" the Af...

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) as part of Patient Protection Affordable Care (“Obamacare”). The purpose BPCIA was to create for biologics a regime similar that Drug Patent Term Restoration (Hatch–Waxman Act) and, in so doing, open markets competition subsequently, lower price these expensive increasingly important ph...

Background: Health insurance literacy is a nascent concept that has emerged mainly after the implementation of the law known as Obamacare in the United States. This study seeks to identify the themes of health insurance literacy in Iranian society. Methods: The study approach is qualitative. Data were collected using nine semi-structured interviews, ten focal group meetings with the presence o...

In 2010, the United States adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. The controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most U.S. cit...

Between February 14 th and 16 th of 2013, some sixty scholars from a wide variety of disciplines includ-finance, and accounting came to Austin, Texas to exchange ideas about the language of institutions. Most of them had never met before and many had nothing in common except one thing – they had used the same computer program to do their work. The software they used, DICTION (www.dictionsoftwar...

derided by its opponents as the monolithic “Obamacare,” the ACA is a multifaceted law with several distinct components — subsidized health insurance exchanges, individual and employer mandates, regulations of the individual insurance market including a defined package of essential benefits, and Medicaid expansion. While opposition to several of these elements remains nearly unanimous among cons...

The organization of the care process pursuing a Triple aim improvement of healthcare is a common interest of clinicians, healthcare managers and policy-makers in this period of financial shortage especially as part of Obamacare in the US [1]. The Triple aim is: 1) better perception of care by the patients e.g. by better clinical continuity, 2) better professional effectiveness e.g. by better pl...