Benefits Think Our next president, our next health reform?

Published January 12, 2012 11:40 AM EST 3 Min Read

Around the same time President Obama was sworn into office in 2009, the book “Healthcare, Guaranteed” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D. (Public Affairs Books) was published. Dr. Emanuel is related to Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. So, you might think that his book could have influenced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Indeed, the book supports several concepts that the Affordable Care Act did ultimately include, but we would have a very different reform law if Dr. Emanuel’s book had more strongly guided the debate.

Now that presidential candidates are pledging to repeal the law and the Supreme Court is determining the law’s future, we may be back in the market for reform ideas.

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