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Financial Implications Of The Medicaid Expansion For Academic Medical Centers, Madeleine Oritt
Financial Implications Of The Medicaid Expansion For Academic Medical Centers, Madeleine Oritt
MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), with the goal of reforming the United States health care system and providing insurance for millions of uninsured citizens and residents. One component of the legislation was the expansion of Medicaid eligibility, which would extend to include all individuals “under age 65 whose family income is at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty guidelines ($14,484 for an individual and $29,726 for a family of four in 2011)” (NCSL, 2015). This provision was challenged in the United States Supreme Court, which ruled …
Corporate Takeover Of Teaching Hospitals, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
Corporate Takeover Of Teaching Hospitals, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article explores the potential and the dangers of this novel form of collaboration between academic medicine and the for-profit world. The author focuses on those arrangements--purchases and leasing agreements--by which investor-owned corporations operate, for a profit, hospitals that serve as major medical teaching and research sites. He begins by reviewing how the evolving needs of academic medical centers and for-profit hospital chains have generated mutual interest in such arrangements. The author then considers some frequently expressed ethical, economic, and other public policy objections to the provision of hospital services by for-profit firms. Opponents of the acquisition and leasing of …