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In an unusual move for a sitting president, Barack Obama has published a scholarly paper in a scientific journal.
The paper, which discusses the success and future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), was published Monday (July 11)in the prestigious medical journal JAMA.
It may be the first time a sitting president has JAMA in 2004, and Bill Clinton, who wrote a commentary published in the journal Science in 1997.
authored a complete academic article — with an abstract, findings and conclusions — that's been published in a scientific journal, at least in recent history. However, several other presidents have written commentaries or opinion pieces that have been published in scientific journals during their presidency, including George W. Bush, who wrote about access to health care in a paper published in
Obama's journal article analyzes data gathered from other reports and studies, and highlights some of the successes of the ACA, including a drop in the percentage of Americans who do not have health insurance . After the act became law, the uninsured rate dropped by 43 percent, from 16 percent of Americans in 2010 to 9.1 percent in 2015, the paper says. [The 5 Strangest Presidential Elections in US History]
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/paper-in-a-top-medical-journal-has-an-unexpected-author-barack-obama/
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