Why Health Care Reforms Fail
4th August 2015
When Congress passes laws concerning health care, intentions and results do not always match up. Two cases in point are the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH). Understanding what happened to these two statutes as they passed from Congress to the reg writers and administrators might give us better insight into how we should expect the Affordable Care Act to play out.