EXPERT ON PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Florida State University’s nationally recognized experts in law and medicine are available to discuss the ramifications of the decision.
Among the available experts is Les Beitsch, M.D., J.D., associate dean for health affairs at the Florida State University College of Medicine.
Beitsch, previously deputy secretary for the Florida Department of Health and commissioner of health for the state of Oklahoma, focuses on health policy. He recently completed two years of service on an Institute of Medicine committee charged with studying the public health system in a post-health-care-reform world.
“I view the ACA as a logical extension of previous jurisprudence related to interstate commerce," Beitsch said. "It can be orderly and affordable, or it can be impacted adversely by severely short-sighted, narrow Supreme Court intervention.”
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