19 Current Issues in Healthcare Policy

Learning Objectives

Examine the basis for government intervention in the market for healthcare services, as well as the forms of intervention.
Explore the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as a policy that has been adopted in the United States with the intention of improving healthcare delivery, access, or outcomes.
Outline the legislation and programs developed to decentralize risk from the healthcare payer to providers of healthcare services.

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