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VCU Health System CEO Offers Insight on Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act Ruling

Sheldon Retchin, M.D., CEO of Virginia Commonwealth University Health System and vice president for health sciences at VCU, is one of the country’s most qualified hospital administrators available to address the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act.

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Managed Care Plan for Uninsured May Significantly Reduce Costs, Emergency Department Visits

The cost of caring for the uninsured population who will gain coverage through the Affordable Care Act of 2014 can be reduced by almost half once the act is implemented, according to a new study from Virginia Commonwealth University researchers.

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Health Care Reform Legislation Tackles Insurance Gap

The new federal health care reform legislation is imperfect but it solves a critical problem that demanded to be addressed – the lack of insurance for millions of Americans, according to Etti Baranoff, Ph.D., associate professor of insurance and finance at VCU.

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U.S. health care policy debate comes down to expectations, cost and access

To better understand the ferocity of the debate over health care policy reform in the United States is to first consider the “national psyche” about health care, according to a Virginia Commonwealth University professor with more than 20 years of health care policy experience.

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