How health-care reform is changing our health care system, in charts
The Affordable Care Act is mostly known for its mandate to expand health insurance to 30 million more Americans within a decade. But much of the law’s 905 pages are dedicated to an effort that’s arguably more ambitious: the overhaul of the U.S. business model for medicine. These charts look at how we pay for health care now, how that’s gone wrong and what the health-care law attempts to change about that.