To the Editor: Health-care redesign seems to be a buzzword in the USA. However, the President Trump recently objected to some parts of Obamacare. No one doubts the importance of the initiatives of “shooting for the moon” and precision medicine in cancer treatment. All-round health care has had a major beneficial impact through state‐of‐the‐art technology, such as big data, internet medical care...

The US Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) was designed to expand health insurance coverage in three major ways: allowing young people through to age 25 to be included on their parents’ policies; expanding the Medicaid program for poor people to include those earning up to 133% of the federal poverty level; and providing federal subsidies to help low and middle income people afford mandated healt...

Well, with all the arguing and gnashing of teeth regarding Obamacare and whether or not it should be repealed, replaced, re-hashed, reupped, and rejected, some of you out there may have forgotten that the beginning of July is Proposed Rules Season for the following calendar year. True to form, CMS (Can More Suck?) released the Proposed Physician Fee Schedule and the Hospital Outpatient Prospect...

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...

Currently, the United States Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is one of the most contentious laws ever passed by Congress. For the first time in the nation’s history, thousands of individuals will be allowed to obtain health insurance under a government-controlled system. At the same time, in the field of political science, the framing of issues by both the media and politicians forms...