The Future of Obamacare: Repeal, Repair, or Replace?

In this section, we have selected relevant readings and resources corresponding to each module. Among these resources are news articles, blog posts, research and policy institutes, and other web resources that are regularly updated. 

WHAT IS OBAMACARE?

• Effects of the ACA on Health Care Cost Containment. The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), University of Pennsylvania: ldi.upenn.edu/brief/effects-aca-health-care-cost-containment
• The website for the University of Michigan's Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation: www.chrt.org
• The website of the Kaiser Family Foundation: kff.org.  (In particular, see their interactive comparison of Proposals to Replace The Affordable Care Act: kff.org/interactive/proposals-to-replace-the-affordable-care-act/)

EXECUTIVE BRANCH DISCRETION

• April 2017 HHS Rule and Other Proposals to Stabilize the Health Insurance Marketplaces. Authors: Megan Foster Friedman, MPP; Marianne Udow-Phillips, MHSA: www.chrt.org/publication/select-proposals-encourage-issuer-participation-2018-health-insurance-marketplaces/
• Examining The Final Market Stabilization Rule: What’s There, What’s Not, And How Might It Work? by Timothy Jost: healthaffairs.org/blog/2017/04/14/examining-the-final-market-stabilization-rule-whats-there-whats-not-and-how-might-it-work/

IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH

• Community Benefit and the ACA - A Brief History and Update Authors: Sara Rosenbaum, J.D.; Maureen Byrnes, MPA; Nikki Hurt, MPH Candidate: nchh.org/Portals/0/Contents/HCF_CBACA%20overview.pdf
• ACA Repeal Would Mean Massive Cuts To Public Health, Leaving Cities And States At Risk by Chrissie Juliano: healthaffairs.org/blog/2017/03/07/aca-repeal-would-mean-massive-cuts-to-public-health-leaving-cities-and-states-at-risk/

REPEAL OR REPLACE: POLICIES & POLITICS

• The Lessons of Obamacare: What Republicans should have learned, but haven't in Vox: vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/15/14908524/obamacare-lessons-ahca-gop
• America needs to decide: Is healthcare something we owe our citizens? in Vox: vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/3/6/14826974/health-care-aca-philosophy-republican-obamacare
• The puzzling way Republicans want to replace the individual mandate, explained with a cartoon in Vox: vox.com/2017/3/7/14841682/republican-replacement-individual-mandate-cartoon
• The health care debate we’re not having, but should be in Vox: vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/20/14986654/health-care-debate-not-having

RECENT UPDATES

• American Health Care Act: Key Provisions and Implications, May 2017 Update. Authors: Megan Foster Friedman, MPP; Marianne Udow-Phillips, MHSA: chrt.org/publication/american-health-care-act-key-provisions-implications-may-2017-update/

VOICES FROM THE MICHIGAN COMMUNITY

A number of University of Michigan professors and alumni post on Health Care policy at The Incidental Economist, a health services research blog: theincidentaleconomist.com

• Law School Professor Nicholas Bagley
• Health Management & Policy alum Adrianna MacIntyre
• Former Health Management & Policy Professor Harold Pollack

NOTABLE VOICES FROM ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM

• Sarah Kliff at Vox: vox.com/authors/sarah-kliff
• Jonathan Cohn at the Huffington Post: huffingtonpost.com/author/jonathan-cohn
• Avik Roy at Forbes: forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/people/aroy/
• Philip Klein at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com/author/philip-klein. (In particular, see ""Key questions on potential deal on repealing and replacing Obamacare"": washingtonexaminer.com/key-questions-on-potential-deal-on-repealing-and-replacing-obamacare/article/2619287)
• Bob Laszewski at Health Care Policy and Market Review: healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com