Opinion Based List:
The five most influential U.S. health coverage legislative acts adopted in the past fifty years
Submitted by Clive Riddle on Wed, 09/08/2010 - 16:12
- Title XVIII (Medicare) and Title XIX (Medicaid) Social Security Act Amendments of 1965
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010
- Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973
- Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003
- Employee Retirement Income Securities Act of 1974
Notes: ERISA in 1974, among other things, addressed employer self-insurance, and allowed ERISA plans to fall under federal and not state jurisdiction
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