June 2012 - The Supreme Court rules Medicaid expansion under the ACA is optional for states the Supreme Court also upholds the individual mandate. Below is a timeline of significant events: Republicans in Congress had attempted to repeal, modify or curb the ACA more than 70 times by 2017. Signed into law on March 23, 2010, the ACA made sweeping changes to the healthcare industry, notably through the health insurance mandate and Medicaid expansion.Īs a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's administration, the ACA faced challenges almost immediately and was plagued by them for the rest of the decade. healthcare policy since the passage of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965. The last decade in healthcare was defined by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the most monumental change in U.S. It's with humility and high regard that we present a dozen milestones as those we won't soon forget in an industry nearly impossible to summarize.īy Brian Zimmerman, Kelly Gooch and Laura Dyrda At times, it seems the only way to define healthcare is with an armful of contradictions: lifesaving, flawed, slow, urgent, redundant, necessary, broken, hopeful, expensive, heartbreaking, inspiring.Īnd three: We're grateful to write about healthcare and its complexities, to have covered so many events, people and things that left their mark on the last 10 years. Conversations without costs easily veer theoretical: It's easy to say how healthcare dollars should be spent until it's your loved one's care or medication in question.
Hospitals are home to some of our highest highs, lowest lows and the mundane moments in between. Beyond the civic and economic statistics, healthcare is wildly, vividly human and personal. voters and is one of the fastest-growing industries for jobs. It accounts for nearly 20 percent of our country's GDP, is a top policy issue for U.S. These events, trends and forces were all part of that inimitable dance. In 10 years, we saw healthcare take steps forward, backward and sideways. Nothing we deem a milestone here is considered a win or a loss. Even diseases we eliminated as a nation return. Innovations can solve problems while causing new complications. New policies can intensify political partisanship. One: Progress is never made in a straight line. It's also a reminder to be ambitious yet humble, both of which we are in presenting this compilation of milestones as definitive of healthcare in the 2010s.Īfter a decade following the industry nationwide - especially from the perspective of hospitals, health systems and surgery centers - we know only three things for sure. It's a line spoken often in the Becker's Healthcare newsroom and encouragement for our reporters to ask the next question, talk to more people, find a new perspective and explore the bigger picture.
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