Fuchs outlines health reforms for Obama Administration in JAMA Commentary

CHP/PCOR core faculty Victor Fuchs applies his 40 years studying health care to clarify what challenges the Obama Administration will face in reforming the system and to identify where changes are most needed. Fuchs writes in the most recent Journal of the American Medical Association that the climate for health care reform today in many ways mirrors 1993. Just as Bill Clinton's young administration learned, Americans then, as they do now, lack the intense desire for a mass overhaul of the health care system. Fuchs, however, sees an opening in the current economic climate if Obama's health reforms focus on both coverage and cost issues. Such new health policy, Fuchs writes, must address three persistent problems: the uninsured, the high and rapidly increasing cost of care, and significant lapses in quality.

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