The 2010 Affordable Care Act affects almost every aspect of the U.S. healthcare system, but many future doctors who will be operating under its policies admit they don’t know that much about the law.
In a survey of about 850 medical students in Minnesota, less than half said they understood the healthcare law’s basic components, and more than 40 percent said they had no opinion on the law.
“We think a lot of that has to do with a lack of understanding with the bill itself and the lack of education in medical schools of healthcare systems and the bigger picture of healthcare,” said lead author Dr. Tyler Winkelman, an internal medicine and pediatrics resident at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
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