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Health Care & Hospital Law,
Government

Jun. 13, 2019

From Obamacare to Trumpcare

It’s been nine years since the 2010 enactment of the Affordable Care Act. The ACA transformed American health care, the most sweeping reform since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid programs a half century earlier. While the ACA remade the health care landscape, contrary to the adage that time heals all wounds, its legacy and future continue to be sources of contention. What can we expect ahead?

Harry J. Nelson

Partner
Nelson Hardiman, LLP

Email: hnelson@nelsonhardiman.com

Harry is the founder of Nelson Hardiman, a Los Angeles-based health care and life sciences specialty law firm. His most recent book, "The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain" (ForbesBooks 2019) explores the points of system failure and solutions to America's substance use disorder crisis.

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From Obamacare to Trumpcare
New York Times News Service

Together we're going to deliver real change that once again puts Americans first. That begins with immediately repealing and replacing the disaster known as Obamacare ... You're going to have such great health care, at a tiny fraction of the cost -- and it's going to be so easy.

-- Donald Trump, 2016

Trumpcare isn't a health care bill. A bill that destroys health care for millions to shovel cash to the rich isn't a health care bill ... Trumpcare ...

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