(Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama has written a game plan on health care for the next president, including a crackdown on prescription drug prices that may cut pharmaceutical manufacturers’ profits if adopted.
In a first for a sitting president, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a scholarly article on Monday by "Barack Obama, J.D." that examines the passage of his landmark health law, the Affordable Care Act, and proposes future improvements to the U.S. health care system.
Obama wrote that a government-run insurance plan, the so-called “public option,” should be made available to Americans buying coverage in parts of the country where competition is limited, and that subsidies to reduce insurance premiums in Obamacare should be more generous.
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