LAW 852 - Affordable Care Act Seminar

College of Law
2-3 credit(s) Irregularly

This seminar explores four aspects of the Affordable Care Act also known as Obamacare. The first is the long history of advocacy for the federal government to declare health care a right and to provide public funding for all medical and hospital attention. The second will be a study of the contents of the ACA, attempting to understand how the legislation was conceived, written and passed. The third will be a study of the implementation of the law including the experience of the failed roll-out using the Internet. Finally, legal decisions arising from the law will be examined. This course can be used to fulfill the legal writing requirement.