Dr. Smith wrote that the main supporters of the Affordable Care Act have already achieved their main objectives, including widespread EMR implementation and medical loss ratio provisions. This means that an overturn of the ACA may not have much effect, Dr. Smith wrote.
“Billions of dollars have already been made [on information technology], and since the subsidies were in the HITECH Act that preceded the ACA, overturning the ACA might have little effect,” Dr. Smith wrote.
“The political theater at the U.S. Supreme Court may serve mainly to divert attention from the real objectives of the biggest proponents of the ACA,” he wrote.
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