The Affordable Care Act As A National Experiment

<p>The landmark 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), or ¿Obamacare,¿ is a topic of great debate in mainstream, academic, and scientific media that generated strong opinions across the political spectrum and our nation. Soon after the enactment of the ACA and the fierce debate that ensued, <i>The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment </i>wa<i>s </i>published by<i> </i>Springer<i> </i>in 2014. Now five years later, just finishing an election year in which the ACA was a hotly debated issue, the second edition of this title examines the history, lessons, and impact of this ground-breaking legislation. </p>Now a decade since implementation nationally, the ACA is the largest healthcare policy innovation in the United States in at least 50 years and one of our nation¿s largest healthcare experiments ever. The history of public health and medicine shows us that to develop better solutions for important health problems, we must innovate.&nb