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Doing Good and Doing Well: Corporate Social Responsibility in Post Obamacare America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

James Corbett  and
Manel Kappagoda
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other federal initiatives are fostering the emergence of a coherent vision for chronic disease prevention that has never before existed in the United States. This investment in population health and prevention comes not a moment too soon. Health care costs are proving very difficult to control and are rising at an unsustainable rate, driven in part by sky-rocketing chronic disease rates.

This article looks at how a health system can engage in prevention activities beyond the clinical setting and makes a strong case that these interventions will result in documented cost savings. We first examine an individually targeted strategy that helps patients obtain health insurance coverage. This strategy furthers a hospital's goal of receiving reimbursement for care while also having the social benefit of increasing patients’ economic stability.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 41 , Issue S1 , Spring 2013 , pp. 17 - 21
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2013

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