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This article provides a commentary on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), challenges in health care in the US, and the uncertainty regarding the reforms that the new administration will implement. In the short amount of time since the inauguration of Donald Trump, many policy plans have been created and debated concerning health care. These potential plans will see changes in health policy affecting millions of Americans. This article highlights the groups likely to be affected by the new administration’s policy changes, and goes on to evaluate policy options, and the institutional barriers to quality access. These include a discussion on horizontal vs. vertical equity in policymaking, as well as the continued presence of institutional racism in the health care sector. The article ends with an overview of the challenges for the new administration in terms of health care, as of March 10th, 2017, as well as the resistance faced, including groups fighting for reproductive rights and citizens concerned about losing coverage under a new Republican health plan that will potentially ‘repeal Obamacare’—or sections of it.
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Leimbigler, B. (2018). The current state of health care in the US after Obama. In: Gellner, W., Oswald, M. (eds) Die gespaltenen Staaten von Amerika. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19923-4_10
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