Insert tab A (ACA) into hole B (US health need)
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The Affordable Care Act has always been an awkward assembly of pieces, an ill-fitting jigsaw of health modules. The glossy picture on the box shows universal healthcare, a plan for a nation that spends twice as much per capita than any other to ensure that its neediest population decile gets a minimal level of healthcare provision. But the box also contained pieces that didn’t really fit and which had to be hammered into position. The need to construct a legal basis for biosimilars approval was one such.