The Prospects for Public Health Reform

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Pub. L. No. 111–148, 124 Stat. 119 (2010)

amended by Health Care and Reconciliation Act of 2010, Pub. L. No. 111–152, 124 Stat. 1029 (2010).

See Greaney T. L. , “Regulating to Promote Competition in Designing Health Insurance Exchanges,” Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 20, no. 2 (2011): 237–265, at 237–238 (describing changes to health insurance markets).

See generally American Public Health Association, Health Reform Resources, APHA Agenda for Health Reform and Relevant Provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as Amended by the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act, April 2, 2010, available at <http://www.apha.org/NR/rdonlyres/00CA506E-4B96-4487-9937-07F3F4C7470F/0/EnactedPatientProtectionandAfordableCa-reActandAPHAAgendaforHealthReform.pdf> (last visited July 11, 2011).

Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health, Institute of Medicine, The Future of Public Health (Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 1988): At 19.

Beauchamp D. E. , “Community: The Neglected Tradition of Public Health,” Hastings Center Report, December 1985, at 29 (“the ‘body politic’ or the ‘commonwealth’ as it was termed in the early days of the American republic’ referred to the public's “interest, held in common, in self-protection or preservation from threats of all kinds to their welfare”).

See Burris S. , “The Invisibility of Public Health: Population-Level Measures in a Politics of Market Individualism,” American Journal of Public Health 87, no. 10 (1997): 1607–1610, at 1607, 1608 (defining “health” as a “personal, medical matter, a state of freedom from pathology achieved by an individual through the mediation of a doctor” and characterizing “[p]ublic health, by contrast … as an attribute of communities in social and physical environments”).

Gostin L. O. , “Health of the People: The Highest Law?” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 32, no. 3 (2004): 509–515, at 509, 510 (“The field of public health would profit from a vibrant conception of ‘the common’ that sees public interests as more than the aggregation of individual interests.”).

See Perry J. E. , “A Missed Opportunity: Health Care Reform, Rhetoric, Ethics, and Economics at the End of Life,” Mississippi College Law Review 29, no. 2 (2010): 409–426, at 411–412 (citing Sarah Palin's Facebook post and describing controversy surrounding health reform proposals regarding end-of-life care).

See Gostin L. O. , Public Health Law, Power, Duty, Restraint, 2nd ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008): At 496–513.