In additionto changing provider payment formulas for Medicare and Medicaid,the ACA dramatically increased the insured rate, particularly instates that opted to expand Medicaid. (Photo: Getty)
The uncertainty surrounding the future of the Affordable CareAct will harm access to care, according to an analysis by the Brookings Institute, aliberal-leaning think-tank.
Christen Linke Young, who specializes in health care law andpolicy, writes in a recent brief that an ongoing challenge to theACA should have been easily quashed by the courts but that thedecision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last month toremand the case to a lower court will sow doubts in the health caremarket that will ultimately hurt patients.
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