Episode 3: Affordable Care Act
2 Docs Talk: The podcast about healthcare, the science of medicine and everything in between. - A podcast by Kendall Britt, MD and Amy Rogers, MD
Since March 2010, health care in the U.S. has been subject to the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. There is a significant amount of confusion about what exactly this law does or does not do. In this episode, we talk about the key provisions of the law and how it affects the delivery of healthcare in the U.S. We cover: the effect of the law on insurance subsidies the pre-exisiting conditions clause the mandatory coverage provision pharmaceutical pricing and other key requirements of the law. In this episode we refer to the following information: Insurance companies requesting rate reviews under Obamacare
