title: What has health care reform meant for the field of psychiatric rehabilitation?
abstract: The year 2010 saw passage of an historic piece of legislation in Public Law 111-148, entitled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or ACA (2010). Since that time, the ACA has contributed to a number of improvements to the U.S. health care system including a large decrease in the number of uninsured individuals, substantially expanded access to health care services, and relief of the burden of uncompensated care provided by hospitals and other health care organizations (Jost, 2015). Various analyses of the law's impact on people with mental illnesses suggest that there have been both positive and negative outcomes from the first five years of ACA implementation. In this editorial, we reflect on these impacts as well as their current and future effects on the field of psychiatric rehabilitation. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago.
authors.forename: Judith A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Therapy, Psychology, and Psychiatry.
authors.forename: Kim T
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Mueser
mesh_terms: D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D000067250:Psychiatric Rehabilitation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States