Health Reform in 2013: The Sprint to the Starting Line

The Affordable Care Act has nearly died at least three times since the final bill took shape in 2010; with the re-election of Barack Obama, it is all systems go. But remember, the race to implement the program by 2014 is only the beginning, not the end, of health care reform.

Minutes after the major news networks called Ohio (and the Presidency) for Barack Obama on November 7, Rock Creek Policy’s Ian Spatz summed up the significance of the election for health care policy on Twitter: “ACA has now passed its 3rd test (passage, SCOTUS, re-election) and coverage expansion will be implemented in 2014.”

The impact of the Obama victory, of course, hasn’t been missed by anyone in the health care sector: the Affordable...

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