One Thing: Health Care

We asked eleven of our sharpest local observers what they thought were the most important stories and trends of the year. From politics and music to faith, literature and film, they weigh in on the one thing that shaped 2012.

Dr. Glenn Braunstein, Chair of the Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Vice President of Clinical Innovation, says the Affordable Health Care Act is the one thing that most impacted his field in 2012. And the impact will continue. “It allows us to enroll 30 million more Americans into the health care system in the beginning of 2103,” he says.

More top stories of 2012 at kcrw.com/onething