Repeal Obamacare
Topics: Health, U.S.
Public Release Date: January 11, 2011
In March 2010, President Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act, the biggest overhaul of our health care system in decades. According to a November poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 40 percent of the public would like Congress to expand the new health reform law or leave it as is, while 49 percent are in favor of repealing all or parts of it. Can the new law reduce the deficit and expand coverage to millions of uninsured Americans, or, as its critics warn, will it actually increase the deficit and fail to control costs that are spiraling out of control?
ARGUING YES:
Scott Gottlieb: Practicing Physician, Former Deputy Commissioner of the FDA
Megan McArdle: Writer & Columnist for Bloomberg View
ARGUING NO:
Jonathan Chait: Political Commentator, Columnist for New York Magazine
Douglas Kamerow: Family Physician, Former Assistant Surgeon General
MODERATOR-IN-CHIEF:
John Donvan: Emmy award-winning journalist