Health Care Reform Simplified: What Professionals in Medicine Government Insurance and
Business Need to Know describes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Now
that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate and other key parts of the
law-what must busy healthcare professionals insurance industry professionals business and HR
managers and policymakers do? First read this book. It translates the law's complex language
into terms that are easy to understand explaining what the new law does when its provisions
take effect and how to implement it. This brand-new second edition also updates all the
provisions and explains the myriad ways the ACA is already being put into practice. Health Care
Reform Simplified Second Edition outlines the financial impact of the law and how it affects
businesses insurers hospitals and doctors and state and local governments. Most important
this book gives consumers and employers critical information for making informed choices about
new options for private and public health insurance coverage. It also describes how the law
interacts with Medicare and Medicaid. Finally it looks at the potential roadblocks-political
judicial and economic-that may yet derail some of the provisions. But with more than half of
the Act's provisions in force already and the Supreme Court's landmark decision upholding the
law there is no time to lose in understanding how the legislation affects you whether you are
a consumer or deliverer of health care in the U.S. This book: Explains health reform in
easy-to-understand terms Shows how the law is playing out in the real world Explains the ways
the law or parts of it yet may be repealed by the 2012 election and the implications for
readers Provides HR professionals and managers options for covering employees while explaining
costs and benefits Details the impact on medical professionals and insurers and steps they must
take now to comply with the law Shows policymakers the way forward now that legal challenges
have abated This edition completely updated to incorporate the newest regulations and the
practices that have been put into place in various states will prove an indispensable guide
for those implementing the law as well as those receiving health care in the coming years.
