Health Care Reform - United States

United States

Health care reform in the United States
  • Healthcare reform in the US
  • 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 Act 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)
More information
Health care reforms in US
  • Recent legislative proposals
  • Public opinion
  • Reform advocacy groups
  • Rationing
  • Insurance coverage
Systems
  • Free-market health care
  • Health insurance exchange
  • National health insurance
  • Publicly-funded health care
  • Single-payer health care
    • Comparison of Canadian and American health care systems
  • Two-tier health care
  • Universal health care
Third-party payment models
  • Capitation
  • Fee-for-service
  • Global payment
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Superseded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 (H.R. 676)
Health care in the United States

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