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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: no rhetoric, just the facts


 

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the most comprehensive reform of the United States’ health-care system since Medicare and Medicaid were created in the 1960s. The law will expand access to health insurance for millions of uninsured Americans, make that coverage more secure, and promote new delivery systems and payment paradigms that focus on prevention and high-quality care...

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