title: Healthcare Reform 2010- a surgeon's perspective.
abstract: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was signed into law President Barack Obama in March 2010. From the standpoint of a clinical surgeon, Dan Ullyot examines healthcare reform of the US system and asks: What is healthcare reform? Do we need it? What would ideal reform look like? And to what extent does the PPACA approach ideal reform? This article is a primer for understanding the salient features of this complex piece of federal legislation, which will have an enormous influence on the lives of this generation and those of the future.
authors.affiliation: University of California San Francisco, USA. dullyot@aol.com
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Ullyot
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D013504:Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures; D017048:Health Care Costs; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D014481:United States