Learning from Past Healthcare Reform Efforts

Healthcare Informatics: A team of physicians at the University of Michigan Health System recently compared two major healthcare reform efforts to provide broad access to healthcare—the Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the Emercency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA),  a 1986 law that  mandated universal access to emergency care. While neither law quite gets there, the physicians say, healthcare reform can still bring the nation closer to comprehensive, coordinated care for all.

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