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March 2012
This week marks the second anniversary of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). It’s also the week that oral arguments begin before the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of the law. At minimum, the court will consider whether the law’s requirement that individuals who can afford health insurance coverage should carry...
July 2010
Racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care in the United States are persistent and well documented. Communities of color fare far worse than their white counterparts across a range of health indicators: life expectancy, infant mortality, prevalence of chronic diseases, self-rated health status, insurance coverage, and many others. As the nation’s population continues to become...
March 2010
The Director of the Joint Center’s Health Policy Institute, Dr. Brian D. Smedley, discusses the health implications of an Obama administration and the challenges to health care reform in trying economic times.
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July 2012
It is becoming abundantly clear that the opponents of President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act care little about minority health.
David Bositis, senior research director for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, has observed in the {Washington Post} that about 36 percent of African Americans have no health insurance (compared to approximately 12 percent...
July 2012
President Obama has written millions of seniors, working poor, middle class Americans and African Americans a prescription for longer and healthier lives. The Supreme Court has sanctioned the heart of the president’s 2010 Affordable Care Act. But the angry crowd from the right wants to tear it up.
What the naysayers don’t understand is that the Affordable Care Act is not just about...
July 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act means that many people of color will see expanded access to healthcare, including those in underserved urban communities gaining increased prevention care. In a column for TheGrio.com, Dr. Brian D. Smedley, vice president at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, notes that under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
June 2012
Thursday's Supreme Court ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act solidified both presidential campaigns' health-care talking points, with President Barack Obama's supporters encouraged by an election-year victory and Mitt Romney's backers more determined than ever to repeal "ObamaCare."
While the decision itself is momentous, it doesn't change what either...
June 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) represents a significant advancement in the effort to repair the deeply broken U.S. healthcare system and promote equitable opportunities for good health for all. As long as its provisions are fully funded by Congress, the law will improve access to health insurance for more...
June 2012
GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney has said only one thing about the Affordable Care Act. It must go and on day one of his administration if elected he will start the ball rolling to repeal it. The Supreme Court may well save him from this braggadocio, vote pandering boast if the four ultra-conservatives justices joined by the court's swing vote, Anthony Kennedy, get their way. They have...
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June 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) represents a significant advancement in the effort to repair the deeply broken U.S. healthcare system and promote equitable opportunities for good health for all. As long as its provisions are fully funded by Congress, the law will improve access to health insurance for...
