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- Title
The Affordable Care Act's Preventive Services Mandate: Breaking Down the Barriers to Nationwide Access to Preventive Services.
- Authors
Cogan, John Aloysius
- Abstract
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) transforms the U.S.'s public and private health care financing systems into vehicles for promoting public health by making evidence-based preventive services available nationwide through individual and group health plans, Medicare, and Medicaid. The ACA accomplishes this transformation by breaking down two barriers: (1) the public health-health care divide, which led to a dominance of curative medicine over preventive health measures and (2) ERISA preemption, which created an obstacle to the provision of a uniform set of evidence-based preventive services that could be made available to the U.S. population through individual and group health plans. As a result, prevention measures with proven effectiveness will now be provided on a national and uniform basis to a majority of Americans, with the potential to improve health outcomes and reduce costs.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HEALTH insurance laws; CENTERS for Disease Control &; Prevention (U.S.); HEALTH services accessibility; IMMUNIZATION; INSURANCE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL care costs; MEDICARE; PREVENTIVE health services; PUBLIC health; HEALTH insurance reimbursement; HEALTH care reform
- Publication
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2011, Vol 39, Issue 3, p355
- ISSN
1073-1105
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1748-720X.2011.00605.x