Kenneth E. Thorpe, PhD, is Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health. He also serves as the executive director of Emory's Institute of Advanced Policy Solutions (IAPS) and director of the Institutes Center for Entitlement Reform.

He is a frequent national presenter and media resource on issues of health care financing, insurance, obesitys affect on health care costs, and health care reform.

Dr. Thorpe says the health care overhaul legislation is an important and historic step. While it will continue to be praised and criticized, both for what it includes and what it omits, he notes that the legislation provides tangible benefits to people with pre-existing conditions, seniors, the uninsured and small businesses.

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