The 2010 Health care reform was a major legislative achievement of the 111th Congress. This Law structurally reform the American health care system by encouraging universal health care coverage through regulated competition among private insurance companies. When looking at process for reform,...

In the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Congress assumed that the private insurance sector will continue to underwrite health risks for most of the non-elderly population. But nothing requires private insurers to continue to do so. To the contrary, the burdensome nature of the ACA's provisions is...

The political acceptance and policy implementation of the right to health long remained uncertain in the United States, leaving it until recently as the only developed nation without policies to realise universal health coverage. By reengaging longstanding debates on government obligations to...

This essay explores the new social contract of healthcare solidarity through private ownership, markets, choice, and individual responsibility embodied in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This essay first explains the four main health care risk distribution institutions affected...

This paper analyzes the critique of ACA that it unjustifiably interferes with state efforts at health reform. We address several aspects of this critique: the argument by states that ACA prematurely cuts off vibrant health reform at the state level by looking at a number of areas in which health...