Battle Over Health Care Reform Has Only Just Begun

Kathryn Nix / July 07, 2010

Before passage of the president’s health care legislation in March, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) infamously exclaimed that “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”  It has now been months since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act became law, and as Heritage expert Stuart Butler explains in a recent paper, the consequences of the bill remain to be determined. Moreover, the ambiguity of the legislation and the amount of decision-making left to administrators means that several controversial questions surrounding the legislation remain unanswered.

Butler highlights the following areas as those in which Americans may find that critical future decisions could drastically change the direction of the health care overhaul: (more…)