Analyzing ACA

A new report funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation estimates the effects the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have on how people get their health insurance, the number of people who will still have no insurance and America’s overall spending on health care. The report, written by Urban Institute researchers, uses the Institute’s Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model (HIPSM) to predict results as if ACA were fully implemented in 2010 and contrasts those outcomes with HIPSM’s estimates for how these factors would look in 2010 without reform.