Affordable Care Act Retrenchment
Event Description
This event is in-person for students only and virtual for everyone else.
The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) is poised to make the largest cuts in federal support for health insurance coverage in United States history. Yet this law is both poorly understood and rife with uncertainty. This lecture will focus on how the OBBBA will undermine the 2010 Affordable Care Act and reduce access to health care, how Congressional Republicans enacted the law, how state officials are struggling to implement the law, and what the law means for the future of the safety net. It draws on a series of in- depth interviews with 34 state government officials, health care nonprofit officials, for-profit lobbyists, representatives of health care industry groups, and other health care experts.
Speaker’s Bio:
Gabriel Scheffler is a professor at the University of Miami School of Law. He works primarily in the areas of health law and policy, administrative law, and regulatory policy.
Prior to joining the Miami Law faculty, he was a Regulation Fellow with the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a Research Fellow with the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School.
Previously, he served as a Staff Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, where he worked on health care and labor market policy.
He received his JD from Yale Law School and his AB from Harvard College.
Event Location
Moot Courtroom (students only) and Virtual (all others)
Gabriel Scheffler
Professor of Law
University of Miami School of Law