Health Care Reform and Health Literacy: A Workshop

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Since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), health care reform has created major changes in the U.S. health care system. The ACA has brought millions of people into the system who had no previous access, and many of these newly enrolled individuals have had limited experience navigating the complex and complicated U.S. health system.

In July 2016 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a public workshop to examine health insurance through the lens of health literacy, focusing on literacy related barriers to information and coverage as well as on possible solutions. Participants discussed the role of health literacy in accessing health care and remaining in treatment; delivery and financing system reforms that affect organizational health literacy; and quality and equity considerations. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

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128 pages · 6 x 9 · paperback
ISBN Paperback: 0-309-45473-5
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-45474-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/24664

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Health Insurance and Insights from Health Literacy: Helping Consumers Understand: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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On July 21, 2016, the Roundtable on Health Literacy of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on health literacy and health insurance literacy in the context of health reform in the United States. Since 2010, the year the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law, the roundtable has convened two workshops related to this topic as well as commissioned two papers, and several members have prepared individually written perspectives. The roundtable's attention to the topic of health insurance is appropriate because health reform has created major changes in the health care system in this country. It has brought millions of people into the system that previously did not have access. In addition, many of these individuals have limited experience with health care and health insurance and are from populations that traditionally have high rates of low health literacy. The workshop focused on the challenges and opportunities in helping consumers obtain, understand, and use health insurance.

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6 pages · 8.5 x 11 ·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-45236-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/24613

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Health Insurance and Insights from Health Literacy: Helping Consumers Understand: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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