ACA Is a Giant Step Forward

October 9, 2012|Hematology and Oncology

Vivek Murthy, MD;Kimberlydawn Wisdom, MD;Bob Kocher, MD

President Obama fought for the ACA not because it was good politics – but because it was good for patients and the country. The law isn’t perfect, but it represents a powerful step forward that will help millions of patients.

President Obama knows we can’t afford to go back to a broken health care system and to fight the political battles of the past again. At a time when we’ve started to see progress and when we have so much more to do, we need a president who will work with us and move the country forward. That is precisely what President Obama will do.

Dr. Murthy is an internist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. Wisdom is the senior vice president of Community Health and Equity at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and the former Surgeon General of Michigan. Dr. Kocher is the former Special Assistant to the President for Healthcare and Economic Policy and is a guest scholar at Brookings Institution in Washington. They are volunteer advisers to Obama/Biden 2012.