Ezekiel Emanuel is an oncologist and the chairman of the department of bioethics at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. His book, "Health Care, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America," has received widespread praise. Just check out one review from the Financial Times:

"The best of recent books on this question is happily the shortest and clearest and comes out this month. I think it has the answer. The proposal laid out in Healthcare, Guaranteed by Ezekiel Emanuel ... has convinced me...If you are going to read one book on the subject, make it Mr. Emanuel's."

This weekend, on the New York Times "Health Care Watch" blog, Dr. Emanuel gave us 5 reasons why we need to "think big" when it comes to health care:

1. "Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized."
2. Health care policy is fiscal policy.
3. Comprehensive health care reform is cheaper.
4. No plan is perfect, institutionalize tinkering.
5. Everything is connected.

To read the explanations behind these points, visit:
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/think-big/

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