The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment

1. Introduction: The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment
Harry P. Selker

Part I. Implementing Change: Objectives of the ACA

2. Commentary on Part I: Objectives of the ACA
James Roosevelt, Terence Burke, Paul Jean

3. Delivering on the Promise of the Affordable Care Act
Kavita Patel, Mallory West

4. What We Got (and What Might Have Been): A Distinctly American Approach
Shawn Bishop

Part II. Don’t Get Mad, Get Data: Conducting the Experiment

5. Commentary on Part II: Conducting the Experiment
Brian Rosman

6. The Affordable Care Act as an Experiment: Data We Have, Expect to Have, and Should Have, from a Vermont Pilot Study
Anya Rader Wallack

7. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation: Its Purpose, Processes, and Desired Outcomes
Harry P. Selker

8. The Dream of a National Health Information Technology Infrastructure
Craig Brammer

9. Results from a Massachusetts Pilot Study
JudyAnn Bigby

Part III. Make it a People Issue: Engaging the Public

10. Commentary on Part III: Engaging the Public
June S. Wasser

11. The Value Proposition for Individuals and the Public
Bruce E. Landon, Stuart Altman

12. Messaging, Medicine, and Obamacare
Ceci Connolly

Part IV. From Personal to Political to Policy: What Next?

13. Commentary on Part IV: From Personal to Political to Policy—What Next?
James Roosevelt, Terence Burke, Paul Jean

14. Supreme Court Review of the ACA and Political Gamesmanship
Shawn Bishop

15. Medicaid Expansion Challenges States
JudyAnn Bigby

16. Next Experiments in ACA Legislation and Policy
John McDonough

17. Epilogue
Harry P. Selker

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Medicine/Public Health, general, Health Administration, Public Health, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention