Healthcare reform's winners and losers

This year's mid-term elections produced a new set of winners and losers, and with the dramatic shift in power that occurred, much of the legislation passed by the 111th Congress will be re-examined in the coming years. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), a keystone accomplishment of our current Congress and the signature wealth redistribution program of the Obama presidency, produced its own set of winners and losers. Now - before this period of introspection begins--seems an appropriate time to identify the PPACA winners and losers under the law as it is currently written.