Introduction: The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment -- Objectives of the ACA -- Delivering on the Promise of the Affordable Care Act -- What We Got (and What Might Have Been): A Distinctively American Approach -- Commentary to Section II: Conducting the Experiment -- The Affordable Care Act as an Experiment: Data We Have, Expect to Have, and Should Have, from a Vermont Pilot Study -- The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation: Its Purpose, Processes, and Desired Outcomes -- The Dream of a National Health Information Technology Infrastructure -- Results from a Massachusetts Pilot Study -- Commentary to Section III: Engaging the Public -- The Value Proposition for Individuals and the Public -- Messaging, Medicine, and Obamacare -- Commentary to Section IV: From Personal to Political to Policy: What Next? -- Supreme Court Review of the ACA and Political Gamesmanship -- Medicaid Expansion Challenges States -- Next Experiments in ACA Legislation and Policy -- Epilogue. |