232237 Health Reform: P-PACA Compared to Single Payer

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 : 4:30 PM - 4:50 PM

Oliver Fein, MD , Clinical Medicine and Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
     
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P-PACA) has been compared with Social Security and Medicare. Not withstanding its beneficial provisions, P-PACA does not provide federal guarantees of health care coverage for everyone the way Medicare does for the elderly. Rather it requires everyone to buy private health insurance and uses government funds to subsidize premiums for people who can't afford them. This presentation will show how P-PACA compares with Medicare-for-All in addressing the fundamental problems confronting the American health care system: declining access, escalating costs, lack of comprehensive benefits, restricted choice, uneven quality and inadequate primary care. The task of reforming the American health care system has just begun.

Learning Areas:
Provision of health care to the public

Learning Objectives:
1. List the challenges facing the current US health care system with regard to costs, access, quality, choice and a lack of primary care. 2. Analyze the limits of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act(P-PACA). 3. Describe the principles underlying a single-payer Medicare-for-All health care reform and compare them with P-PACA.

Keywords: Health Reform, Health Insurance

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am qualified as Professor of Clinical Medicine and Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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