Death by Regulation: How Bureaucrats Killed One of Obamacare's Promising Innovations

by Peter L Beilenson and Peter L. Beilenson

Book Overview

The story of a small healthcare startup and its fight for survival against the very federal agencies responsible for its launch as part of the ACA.

In the contentious run-up to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Congress passed a law to make nonprofit health insurance CO-OPs (formally known as Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans) a viable alternative to the public option. The idea was to create new competition in order to lower...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421432145
• ISBN13: 9781421432144
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"