Health Care Reform Opportunities and Affordable Care Act Implementation

(originally published 9/13/13) What is the state of health care in America? Can costs be reduced and outcomes improved? Will the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) implementation be successful? Which aspects of ACA are already having a positive impact? What to expect on October 1 when state health exchanges go online? Kavita Patel, a fellow in the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings and also a practicing internal medicine physician with Johns Hopkins Medicine, speaks with ho...