Obamacare - a stunning legacy

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 03 May 2010Publisher:South African Medical Association NPCJournal:South African Medical Journal, volume 100, page 259 (eissn: 2078-5135,

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Authors: Ncayiyana, Daniel J;

doi: 10.7196/samj.4200

pmid: 20460006

Obamacare - a stunning legacy

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Abstract

Obamacare achieves its three objectives to expand health care insurance coverage, to end unfair insurance industry practices, and to curb spiralling health care costs. Given the parallels between the US and South African private health care systems, there are lessons to be learnt from the US experience, but that is a topic for another day.

Keywords

Insurance, Health, Health Care Reform, Politics, Humans, Health Care Costs, United States

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