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Call for Papers: Evaluation of the Affordable Care Act
The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) invites the submission
of
manuscripts to be published either individually or in a series of
symposiums in forthcoming
issues on the “Evaluation of the Affordable Care Act” depending on the
volume of submissions.
The Affordable Care Act has been law for five years and almost all of its
provisions have been
implemented. While it is still relatively early in the life of the ACA, the
growing availability of data
and the continuing policy significance of the ACA make it an opportune time
to begin assessing
the efficacy of the ACA. The overarching theme of the JPAM symposiums is to
assess whether
the ACA achieved its primary objectives of expanding health insurance
coverage and improving
the effectiveness of health care delivery. However, within this broad,
topical umbrella there are
many potential research questions of interest such as, but not limited to:
1. Early evidence suggests that the ACA has reduced the proportion of
uninsured. Was this change
mostly due to the Medicaid expansions or the creation of the Health
Insurance Marketplaces? Was
there any “crowd out” of private insurance?
2. Do the effects of the ACA vary with other aspects of the state health
policy environment?
3. How did the ACA affect hospital organization and provision of inpatient
care?
4. The ACA was intended to improve the efficiency (cost and quality) of
health care delivery.
How has it done?
5. How did the ACA affect the health insurance market?
6. While the effects of the ACA on health outcomes and government budgets
are perhaps what
the law will ultimately be judged by, the main market motivator for health
insurance is financial
protection. Has the ACA improved financial wellbeing of low-income
families?
7. The ACA implementation provides a rich opportunity to study the effect
of management on policy.
What lessons can be learned about successful state and local implementation
of federal programs?
The papers or collections of them as symposiums will be published in a
time-sensitive manner in upcoming
issues of JPAM. The intent of this call is to promote the best and most
current, evidence-based research on
the Affordable Care Act, and to disseminate that research swiftly.
Editorial review will be consistent with this
time-sensitive objective. Co-Editor Robert Kaestner will be the
editor-in-charge of the symposiums along with
special editors Christopher Carpenter, Sherry Glied, Kosali Simon, and
Katherine Swartz. After peer review,
they will recommend articles for publication to Kenneth Couch, the
editor-in-chief of JPAM. Average turnaround
for peer-reviewed articles at JPAM is 58 days. Submissions for this special
issue should be made through the
regular online submission process for the journal at
editorialexpress.com/jpam/. Please indicate with your submission
that you would like your paper to be considered as part of this special
call for papers on the ACA. Submissions will
be accepted immediately and will continue until August 31, 2016.
JPAM is the flagship journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis
and Management. It typically ranks
among the top public policy journals. While JPAM readership is
sophisticated, we would like the papers to be
written in a way that makes them accessible to wide audiences.
Demonstrations of the usefulness of these
approaches must be focused on policy and public management issues that have
broad ramifications for policy
and decision makers at the state, local or federal levels of government.
--
Robert Kaestner
Professor
Institute of Government and Public Affairs
University of Illinois
312.996.8227
Professor
Department of Economics
University of Illinois at Chicago
Research Associate
National Bureau of Economic Research
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