Tag: ACA

  • Nation & World

    A fraught season for health care

    With Election Day approaching and the coronavirus pandemic surging, Benjamin Sommers discusses how shifting political winds might affect health care.

    19 minutes
    Medical reports and a computer.
  • Nation & World

    Inequality runs deeper than health law

    The Affordable Care Act has narrowed health disparities along class and race lines, but not nearly as much as needed.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The good life, longer

    By synthesizing the data collected in multiple government-sponsored health surveys conducted in recent decades, researchers from the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard University, and the University of Massachusetts were able to measure how the quality-adjusted life expectancy of Americans has changed over time.

    5 minutes