The president weighs in on plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), what most Americans say is their top healthcare priority, and more on public libraries as partners for public health!

• In a NEJM perspective piece, President Barack Obama discusses the ACA, calling plans to “repeal now and replace later” irresponsible. “If a repeal with a delay is enacted, the health care system will be standing on the edge of a cliff, resulting in uncertainty and, in some cases, harm beginning immediately.” The President also appeared in a live interview (broadcast on YouTube) about health care with Sarah Kliff and Ezra Klein of Vox.
• The Kaiser Family Foundation has released of a poll of Americans Health Care Priorities for 2017. According to the poll, only one one in five support repeal of the ACA without a replacement plan established, and the top priority is to lower out-of-pocket healthcare costs.
• More about the ACA and potential changes is covered by Joseph Burns on the AHCJ site in, Report: Rate of uninsured drops in every state.
• And, in an opinion for STAT News, Autumn McClintock writes about the health care outreach and education work being done at the Free Public Library of Philadelphia to address public heath issues. This isn’t the first time Philadelphia’s exciting programs have come up in Blog Buzz, I first wrote about them in November, and linked to this article in Health Affairs.