The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

  1.Fully describe Provision #7 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 2. When we look at the lessons learned on reforming health care, we can see that the United States had encountered at least five reasons of why health care reform was hard to pass as law. Fully describe each one of these five reasons and how they affected the political process. 3. What were some of the distinguishing features of the Congresses and political landscapes in the 1965, 1981, 1993, and 2009 time periods? How did these features enable, impede, or influence health policy developments? 4. When did Section 2714 of the ACA: Extension of Dependent Coverage become law? 5. Fully describe Provision #5 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Use TEXTBOOK as the main source: Weissert, W. G. & Weissert, C. S. (2012). Governing health: The politics of health policy (4th ed.).