Why Health Reform Will Be a Danger to Passive Patients

A sea change is coming in the way Americans experience and pay for healthcare—one that will require us to develop a whole new set of muscles. The thousands of pages of legislation penned to overhaul the nation's healthcare system touch every nook and cranny of medicine, changing the relationship of doctors and patients, rewriting textbooks of medicine with more focus on staying well, and setting new rules for how treatments are—or are not—blessed. US News