ANALYSIS: Implementing the ACA post-election: Let the wild rumpus begin
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Executive Summary
While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicare and Medicaid may have been spared a complete topsy-turvy set of events with President Barack Obama's 332-206 electoral vote win over former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, there's no doubt knotty challenges – financial and otherwise – lie ahead, not only for all agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), but for the 50 US states and industry as the law is further implemented.