America Under the Affordable Care Act

In a report by the Urban Institute it was found that the cost of uncompensated medical care for the uninsured would drop 61% if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 were already in effect and fully implemented. The researchers sought to model the effects of the ACA using 2010 data and compare the estimates to a scenario without health insurance reform. They used the Urban Institute’s Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model to predict the results and then compared the simulation results estimates previously released by the Congressional Budget Office and the Centers for Medicare and . . .