Introduction: Ernst & Young, a global advisory firm, reports on the status of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of March 2010, including implementation efforts and legislative and judicial challenges to the law’s constitutionality.
An excerpt from the article: A year after the law’s enactment, implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act remains a central focus area for President Obama and Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. If anything, attention to health care has grown over the past year, not only due to the political conflict between Republicans’ efforts to repeal the law and the Administration’s effort to move forward with implementation, but also with the increasing budgetary pressure at the federal and state levels.
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