To hear proponents and opponents of the nation’s new health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act will either make the United States the utopia of medical care or give Americans medicine the equivalent of a third-world country. Likely, it won’t do either. Instead, availability and cost levels might improve while quality could decline. This realization is dawning on some medical experts who are beginning to focus on wasteful spending and practices as the most immediate way to cut into rising health care costs.
In a report appearing in the current issue of the Journal the American Medical Association, Dr. Donald Berwick, a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Dr. And
On the first day of the Supreme Court’s review of health care reform, the court focused on the Anti-Injunction Act and the timing of the lawsuit. If the Anti-Injunction Act applied to reform, then the Supreme Court would not be allowed to rule on the case before a penalty is imposed on those who do not comply with the individual mandate. That means, if the Anti-Injunction Act applied then the Supreme Court would have to wait until the individual mandate and penalty for not purchasing health insurance was implemented in 2014. This would delay the decision on health care reform until 2014. <