What's New
At noon, March 22nd, 2010, President Barack Obama brought a hundred year struggle for affordable health care to a close when he signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law.
The Senate must still take up a final set of fixes to this legislation this week, and then the state and federal government must begin the long, hard work of implementation. But right now, this historic health reform legislation is the law of the land.
Health Care Reform Makes Sense
Fixing the health care system makes good economic sense, too, according to two recent U.S. PIRG reports.
A new report from U.S. Public Interest Research Group shows that more effective and less expensive care would be one of many benefits of an improved health care system.
The report, which looks at what is called "comparative effectiveness research," finds that for the majority of medical conditions, no studies exist to help doctors – and their patients – determine the most effective course of treatment among all the available option.
Another recent report, entitled Putting America Back to Work, finds that proposals to tame health care costs could allow the creation of 2.5 million jobs over a five year period without inflationary effects, and yield stronger economic growth over the long term.
To download the brief, click here.
