MB Civic

By GINA KOLATA Published: April 2, 2012

“…It’s a series of policies and regulations and subsidies and mandates. That’s the reason it’s so complex. It builds on an incoherent medical system with all kinds of public and private insurance and tries to patch the holes. And it affects different groups of Americans in different ways at different times.

But it is transformative. If it is implemented, it would be the most important health care law since the enactment of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965….”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/health/policy/the-abcs-of-the-health-care-law-and-its-future.html?src=recg