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April

14
2015

9:00 am EDT - 12:00 pm EDT

Past Event

Assessing the Affordable Care Act’s efficacy, implementation, and policy implications five years later

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT

Brookings Institution
Falk Auditorium

1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC
20036

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), most commonly known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is one of the most important pieces of legislation enacted into law and implemented by the federal government in a generation. The ACA is also one of the most complex and comprehensive efforts to reform the American health care system and reduce costs. Now that the ACA is five years old, how successful has the law been in meeting its primary goals? What has been its efficacy in transforming American health care? What have been the major outcomes and unintended consequences? And what might the future hold for this law, given today’s political environment and a pending, major U.S. Supreme Court decision that could determine the ACA’s fate?

On April 14, Governance Studies at Brookings hosted a forum to examine the ACA five years after its passage. This forum was the sixth annual A. Alfred Taubman Forum on Public Policy, which convenes leaders from academia, the media, and government to explore the far-reaching implications of the ACA. Discussion focused on the law’s successes and failures as the most consequential piece of health care legislation in recent history.


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