Implementing Health Care Reform

After more than a year of negotiation, President Obama signed a sweeping health care reform bill on March 23. Advocates celebrate the law's extension of coverage to 32 million, while detractors insist its costs will be unsustainable. Urban Institute health policy experts Linda Blumberg and John Holahan cut through the heated rhetoric to discuss the law and its implications. What exactly does it provide and for whom? Blumberg and Holahan assess the mandate to buy insurance, implementation at the state level, and the effect on the federal budget.

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• Health Care
• Reform
• Linda Blumberg
• John Holahan