Health policy: Upholding the Affordable Care Act - Implications for oncology Journal Article
| Authors: | Swain, S.; Hudis, C. |
| Article Title: | Health policy: Upholding the Affordable Care Act - Implications for oncology |
| Abstract: | The Affordable Care Act-the Obama administration's signature legislation designed to insure over 30 million currently uninsured Americans-was recently declared constitutional by the US Supreme Court. Although not perfect, the law contains provisions that will benefit patients with cancer, those at risk of cancer and those in remission. © 2012 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. |
| Keywords: | review; cancer risk; united states; cancer patient; cancer diagnosis; neoplasms; cancer prevention; cancer screening; smoking cessation; oncology; health care policy; health care quality; drug cost; health care; health care cost; health insurance; law; medicaid; medicare; health policy; cancer regression; health care system; health care reform; jurisprudence; cancer prognosis; court; patient protection and affordable care act |
| Journal Title: | Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Issue: | 9 |
| ISSN: | 1759-4774 |
| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
| Date Published: | 2012-08-14 |
| Start Page: | 491 |
| End Page: | 492 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1038/nrclinonc.2012.141 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
| PUBMED: | 22869329 |
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| Notes: | --- - "Export Date: 1 October 2012" - "Source: Scopus" |
