March 2020 marked the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) being enacted into law. The much-debated health care law was designed to improve access to health insurance for millions of uninsured Americans and to address the persistent problem of rising health insurance costs.

This event will feature national experts including Jonathan Cohn, Senior National Correspondent at the Huffington Post, John McDonough, Dr.P.H., M.P.A., Professor of Practice, Department of Health Policy & Management and Director of Executive and Continuing Professional Education at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Marianne Udow-Phillips, M.H.S.A., Founding Executive Director of the Center for Health and Research Transformation, and Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at Project Hope. The expert panel will share their insights about the ACA's accomplishments and challenges over the past decade and the future of the ACA in 2020 and beyond.

Moderators: John Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., Director of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, and Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the U-M Center for the History of Medicine

This event serves as the Institue for Healthcare Policy and Innovation Director’s Lecture and the Center for the History of Medicine's Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities.

This event is open to the public.