142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Marketization of Health Care Under the ACA

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Monday, November 17, 2014 : 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM

Leonard Rodberg, PhD , Urban Studies Department, Queens College, CUNY, Queens, NY
The Affordable Care Act has expanded coverage but it has done so without changing the basic context of health care in the United States.  Health care has become ever more a market commodity rather than an essential human service provided in the context of health care as a human right.  This session will describe the ways in which this the ACA has accelerated this transformation and what might be done to resist this transformation.

Learning Areas:

Advocacy for health and health education
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
Discuss the ways in which the Affordable Care Act has further accelerated the transformation of health care from a human necessity and human right to one more item for sale in America

Keyword(s): Health Care Reform

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: This is my area of academic expertise.
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.