Health

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Nurse Susan Krussell RN shows saline bags she uses when administering medication to patients with Fungal Meningitis due to contaminated steroid infections, at St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan (REUTERS/Rebecca Cook).

Speech

The Future of the Affordable Care Act: a Debate on Its Effects

April 12, 2013, Henry J. Aaron

Henry Aaron examines the future of health care access from two perspectives: one view supporting the ability of the Affordable Care Act to rein in health care costs, the other noting the numerous and necessary outstanding changes that must take place in the health care system before the Affordable Care Act can even be implemented.