Timothy Jost, a health policy analyst at Washington and Lee University, confirms that nothing in the ACA specifically addresses this kind of exclusion.

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Cato health policy analyst Michael Cannon noted that special interests successfully lobbied to require several new benefits, including drug-abuse treatment, early intervention for autism, hospice care, hormone replacement therapy, and non-in-vitro fertility services.

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While the new commission may end up helping the private sector by raising public confidence in its quality, Justin Keen, a health policy analyst at the King's Fund, worries that having separate quality controls for public and private medicine reinforces rather than reduces the two-tier nature of British health care.

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