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Public opinion polls, media coverage, legal disputes, and policy debates at all levels of government and in private industry attest to the important place that individual healthcare and public health and safety hold in the minds of the American public, policymakers, and lawmakers. Essentials of Health Policy and Law, Fourth Edition provides students of public health, medicine, nursing, public policy, and health administration with an introduction to a broad range of seminal issues in U.S. health policy and law, analytic frameworks for studying these complex issues, and an understanding of the ways in which health policies and laws are formulated, implemented, and applied.  Concise and straightforward, this text is particularly known for its focus on national health reform under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).