"The 14 chapters cover the ACA and the law, the federal budget, healthcare delivery, and the law's impact on cost and innovation, and on the insurance industry. What is clear from the four chapters focusing on legal challenges to the ACA is that, despite much of the statute being upheld in National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius (2012), the legal challenges to the statute and its implementation are far from over. Later chapters suggest that costs are driven by the lack of coordination of care, technology, and treatments that are not likely to improve the patient's health. The volume ends with an interesting chapter by Richard A. Epstein that suggests that real health care reform comes through deregulation. Recommended."

Choice

“Extremely interesting and informative, The Future of Healthcare Reform in the United States  presents a range of intriguing perspectives on the Affordable Care Act, the health reform plan of President Obama, and on healthcare reform in general. There are many books on the topic of health reform—what distinguishes this one so wonderfully is the range of disciplines covered. The Future of Healthcare Reform is an essential overview for considering healthcare reform in general and the ACA in particular.”

Robert Field, Drexel University

“Few pieces of legislation have engendered as much controversy in recent decades as the Affordable Care Act, and Malani and Schill have brought together in one volume some excellent examples of commentaries on the ACA from across the political spectrum. This outstanding book displays many of the major issues facing U.S. policymakers as they seek to provide more Americans with basic access to affordable, high-quality health care despite fundamental ideological disagreements and substantial practical hurdles.”

Aaron Kesselheim, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School

“This excellent volume focuses on the single most important health-related law in the past forty years: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Rather than focusing narrowly on a particular topic or aspect of the ACA, however, The Future of Healthcare Reform in the United States brings together many well-respected scholars in distinct but related fields to examine a multitude of topics, including legal issues, delivery reforms, and insurance market remedies. In doing so, it illuminates multiple themes, such as the challenges of delivery reform in a fragmented health care system, the difficulties in shaping insurance markets to achieve policy goals, and the looming issue of health care costs. The book's broad focus and interdisciplinary look at health reform will help readers understand both the promise and the perils of a rapidly changing healthcare system.”

Kristin Madison, Northeastern University

“Malani and Schill have gathered together a collection of interesting, well-written chapters by excellent authors, ranging from Phillips and Hales’s descriptive, stage-setting chapter to Cochrane’s tour de force analysis.”

Mark Hall, Wake Forest University School of Law