As a benefits consultant, celebrating my 50th birthday was a lot like anticipating the full implementation of health care reform. At first,a long way off, both events arrived here before we knew it and – no matter how many times we tried to deny it or delay it – both were inevitable.
Celebrating this milestone while working feverishly with clients to strategically address health care reform’s complexities, led me to the following comparisons between turning 50 and health care reform: