Read Jonathan Oberlander’s article entitled “Long Time Coming: Why Health Reform Finally Passed” that appeared in Health Affairs of June 10, 2010 (29:6) and Shi and Singh’s chapter on Health Policy from Jones and Bartlett (especially brief section entitled Politics of the Affordable Care Act). In 300-400 words summarize their views on the factors that led to passage of the ACA (vs. failure of previous attempts to achieve something similar at the Federal level).
