“Health Care Reform” is now the subject of a variety of excellent summaries which are accessible online for the employee benefits practitioner:
This alert summarizes the major provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (together with the PPACA, the “Act”) that will impact employers and their group health plans (“GHPs”).
http://www.martindale.com/employee-benefits-law/article_Haynes-Boone-LLP_984758.htm
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 brings both promise and peril for primary care. This Act has the potential to reestablish primary care as the foundation of US health care delivery.
http://www.annals.org/content/early/2010/04/15/0003-4819-152-11-201006010-00249.full?aimhp
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care weeping measure designed to expand access to health insurance, reduce health care spending (particularly in the Medicare program); expand federal fraud and abuse authorities and transparency requirements; impose new taxes and fees on health industry sectors; and institute a variety of other health policy reforms.