Healthcare Reform Law Already Affecting Millions

USA Today (12/28, Kennedy) reports that “it can be difficult to dig through the rhetoric to determine just what the 2010 health care law has done,” but “proponents and foes say big pieces of the law have been enacted and have already affected millions of people’s lives.” Don Berwick former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, remarked, “It’s complicated, but there are very many benefits affecting millions of people. They will not know it’s the Affordable Care Act, but it is.” The piece highlights “five major changes in health care that occurred in 2011 because of the health care law,” including a crackdown on fraud and more benefits for young adults and seniors.

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