What’s the Real Emergency in Health Care Reform?

Jane Orient

9/28/2009

As Obama has noted, health care reform has been an emergency for at least half a century, yet many previous presidents have failed to ram through a national health system. So why is it an even bigger emergency now, requiring that we “get it done” before the end of the year?

Most of it, of course, will not even take effect for several years — until after the next presidential election.

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