Confused about the ACA? Outraged by the AHCA?
Find out everything you've always wanted to know about the health-care debates but were afraid to ask.
The American Health Care Act (AHCA) fiasco has left Obamacare (aka the Affordable Care Act, or ACA) as the law of the land. Regardless of whether you love this outcome, hate it, or are hankering for some non-partisan improvements to the law, you probably agree that this whole healthcare debate is confusing, hyperpartisan, and downright frustrating. As President Trump said, "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated."
Well, some people knew. And on Wednesday from 4 to 5:30 p.m. they will gather at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health to help the rest of us make sense of it at free forum called "The Future of Healthcare Reform."
What you should know is that the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which was implemented nationally in 2014, represented the largest U.S. healthcare policy reform since the 1960s. By 2016, the uninsured rate among adults ages 18 to 64 fell to a historic low of 12.3%, or a decline of 40% from just a few years before. But not everything is rosy for healthcare. Costs and access remain a concern and, of course, the Republicans who now control both Congress and the White House want to repeal and replace the ACA. They are still seeking GOP compromises to get the bill through the House.
On Wednesday, come join Drs. David Grande from the University of Pennsylvania, Dylan Roby from the University of Maryland, and Robert Field and Alex Ortega from Drexel University as they discuss the uncertain future of health care reform.
Where: Dornsife School of Public Health, Stein Auditorium, 3215 Market St., Philadelphia.
When: Wednesday, May 3, 2017, from 4-5:30 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, click here.
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