Items of Interest

Health Reform: Why Was the Endgame So Difficult? By Tim McBride, PhD, RUPRI Rural Health Panel

Understanding how health reform was structured and negotiated to strike the right ideological mix of votes can be helpful in future legislative design.

From RUPRI Rural Health Panel Member:  Why Was the Health Reform Endgame So Difficult?  Ask Ken Arrow

Professor Tim McBride, a member of the RUPRI Rural Health Panel, and Dean of Public Health at Washington University, recently discussed on the Altarum Institute’s Health Policy Forum blog the negotiations and structure behind the final version of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act that eventually led to its final passage.  Striking the right balance in the final legislation to attract the needed ideological mix of votes was full of compromises and wins and losses, but ultimately holds important lessons for the design of future legislation.