AcademyHealth: With respect to coverage, the ACA appears to be working

My latest at the AcademyHealth blog:

I have long argued that the Affordable Care Act (and health care reform in general) has been about improving access. More specifically, it’s been about the uninsured. The ACA’s main raison d’ etre was to reduce the number of uninsured in the United States.

By that metric, the ACA appears to be working.

Go read the whole thing!

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

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