University of Texas, Austin, USA.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2010 Aug;29(8):1496-7. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0465.
The culmination of a century's effort to enact universal coverage in the United States is a law with an uninspiring title, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and an even more awkward acronym, PPACA. The Obama administration has decided to call the legislation the Affordable Care Act, but the expansion of health coverage that the law sets in motion has no name, and therefore no identity. It badly needs one.
美国一个世纪以来努力实现全民医保的成果是一部名称平淡无奇的法律,即《患者保护与平价医疗法案》,其首字母缩略词更为拗口,为 PPACA。奥巴马政府决定将这项立法称为《平价医疗法案》,但该法律启动的医保范围扩大目前尚无名称,因此也没有身份标识。它迫切需要一个名称。