HUFFINGTON
08.19.12
PROGNOSIS UNCLEAR
for Health Reform at the National
Press Club in Washington.
“If that economy bets wrong on
what the realities of 2014 will be,
the ability to deliver services in an
efficient way, to actually be able to
meet the demand at that particular time, will be in jeopardy,” said
Lumpkin, who also serves as the
director of the health care group at
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, N.J..
While President Obama and
Republican politicians continue
to trade barbs over the Affordable
Care Act and the public remains
divided over health care reform,
the law is taking shape in the real
world. With the Supreme Court
ruling out of the way, no one can
afford to gamble on the law going
away, despite vows to repeal it by
presidential candidate Mitt Romney and other Republicans.
There’s a lot left to be done.
Federal officials and state governments must make plans for how
to connect as many as 30 million people to health care benefits
Ronald
Peterson
(left),
president of
the Johns
Hopkins
Hospital
and Health
System, talks
outside the
center in
Baltimore
on Aug. 2.