The Affordable Care Act and the Business of Medicine

This morning, as the Supreme Court begins three days of argument on the fate of the Affordable Care Act, it's worth noting that the ACA does much more than "mandate" the purchase of health insurance. The ACA tries to change the business of medicine. As explained in Sunday's Washington Post:

The two-year-old Affordable Care Act is mostly known for its mandate to expand insurance to 30 million more Americans within a decade. But much of the law is devoted to a more ambitious effort: an overhaul of the nation’s business model for medicine. It includes 45 changes to how doctors deliver care — and how patients pay for it. These reforms, if successful, will transform the health-care sector into one that places less emphasis on volume and more on value.

Significant changes to the medical business may remain even in the (unlikely) event that the Supreme Court strikes down some or all of the ACA. Read the entire Post story here.

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[Lewis]

As we are well aware with the fact that medical business are one of the most profitable business around the world, and after the controversial argument by the Supreme Court on regards for the mandatory on the purchase of health insurance most of the medical business are also affects, through the acts of Affordable Care Act which direct or indirect look after the activity of health care organization.

[Beats]

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