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Ideas and Opinions1 December 2015The Blind Spot in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Cost-Control PoliciesErin C. Fuse Brown, JD, MPHErin C. Fuse Brown, JD, MPHFrom Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, Georgia.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/M15-1386 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) seems to be helping bend the health care cost curve. However, optimism about more modest spending growth could obscure the lurking problem of unrestrained health care prices that is largely unaddressed by the ACA (1).Health care cost containment consists of 2 parts: reducing overtreatment and constraining health care prices. With Medicare, the government sets the prices, so the cost control discussion focuses on reducing overuse through payment reforms, such as accountable care organizations (ACOs) or bundled payments. These reforms aim to reduce wasteful or unnecessarily costly care, which makes up nearly ...
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