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Affordable Care Act; public health equity; healthcare market; stakeholder engagement; value-based care
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Issues And Challenges: The Development Of Fair And Equitable Health Policy, Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup
Issues And Challenges: The Development Of Fair And Equitable Health Policy, Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup
Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice
Public health policy/law is a discipline that seeks to identify opportunities and implement mechanisms to achieve justice in the public health sector. Several public health policies and programs have been implemented by virtue of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and these policies and programs seek to decrease America’s “paradox of excess and deprivation” and address socioeconomic barriers that exist in the U.S. healthcare system. Private healthcare market interests have accused the ACA of intruding heavily into the professional autonomy of the medical profession, eroding healthcare market competition, and driving up national healthcare spending. Counter-arguments defending the ACA state that the …