After the ACA

After the ACA, a longish essay on what to do instead of Obamacare. Relative to the policy obsession with health insurance, it focuses more on the market for health care, and relative to the usual focus on demand -- people paying with other people's money -- it focuses on supply restrictions. Paying with your own money doesn't manifest a cab on a rainy Friday afternoon, if you face supply restrictions.

Long time blog readers saw the first drafts. Polished up, it is published at last in the volume  The Future of Healthcare Reform in the United States edited by Anup Malani and Michael H. Schill, just published by the University of Chicago Press.

The rest of the volume is interesting, and the conference was enlightening to me, a part-timer in the massive health-policy area. As the U of C press puts it with perhaps unintentional wry wit: "By turns thought-provoking, counterintuitive, and even contradictory, the essays together cover the landscape of positions on the PPACA's prospects."

PART 1. ACA and the Law

Chapter 1. Postmortem on NFIB v. Sebelius: Early Reflections on the Decision That Kept the ACA Alive. Carter G. Phillips and Stephanie P. Hales

Chapter 2. Federalism, Liberty, and Risk in NFIB v. Sebelius. Aziz Z. Huq

Chapter 3. The Future of Healthcare Reform Remains in Federal Court. Jonathan H. Adler

Chapter 4. Essential Health Benefits and the Affordable Care Act: Law and Process. Nicholas Bagley and Helen Levy

PART 2. ACA and the Federal Budget

Chapter 5. The Fiscal Consequences of the Affordable Care Act. Charles Blahous

Chapter 6. Estimating the Impact of the Demand for Consumer-Driven Health Plans Following the 2012 Supreme Court Decision of the Constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Stephen T. Parente

 PART 3. ACA and Healthcare Delivery

Chapter 7. After the ACA: Freeing the Market for Healthcare.  John H. Cochrane

Chapter 8. Obamacare and the Theory of the Firm. Einer Elhauge

Chapter 9. Can Federal Provider Payment Reform Produce Better, More Affordable Healthcare Meredith B. Rosenthal

PART 4. Healthcare Costs, Innovation, and ACA

Chapter 10. The Role of Technology in Expenditure Growth in Healthcare. Amitabh Chandra and Jonathan Holmes

Chapter 11. Economic Issues Associated with Incorporating Cost- Effectiveness Analysis into Public Coverage Decisions in the United States. Anupam B. Jena and Tomas J. Philipson

Chapter 12. The Complex Relationship between Healthcare Reform and Innovation. Darius Lakdawalla, Anup Malani, and Julian Reif

PART 5. ACA and Health Insurance Markets

Chapter 13. The Affordable Care Act and Commercial Health Insurance Markets: Fixing What’s Broken?  James B. Rebitzer

Chapter 14. A Cautionary Warning on Healthcare Exchanges: A Plea for Deregulation.  Richard A. Epstein