Healthcare Reform In The United States
| Health care reform in the United States |
- Health care in the United States
- Debate over reform
- History
Latest enacted legislation
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Senate bill - H.R. 3590)
- Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872)
preceding legislation
- Social Security Amendments of 1965
- Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (1986)
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (1996)
- Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (2003)
- Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (2005)
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More information
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Health care reforms in US
- Recent legislative proposals
- Public opinion
- Reform advocacy groups
- Rationing
- Insurance coverage
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| Systems |
- Free-market health care
- Health insurance exchange
- National health insurance
- Publicly-funded health care
- Single-payer health care
- Canadian vs. American health care systems
- Two-tier health care
- Universal health care
Third-party payment models
- Capitation
- Fee-for-service
- Global payment
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| Other legislation |
Superseded
- Affordable Health Care for America Act (House bill - H.R. 3962)
- America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (H.R. 3200)
- America's Healthy Future Act (Baucus bill - S. 1796)
- Healthy Americans Act (Wyden-Bennett Bill - S. 391)
Proposed
- United States National Health Care Act (2009, H.R. 676)
- Health Security Act (1993, H.R. 3600)
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| Health care in the United States |
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