Matt Miller Matt Miller is the author of The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go Of the Old Ways Of Thinking To Unleash A New Prosperity, published by Times Books. Miller is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a contributing editor at Fortune and the host of "Left, Right & Center," public radio's popular week-in-review program (recently named by iTunes as one of its "best podcasts.") Miller's first book, The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America's Problems In Ways Liberals and Conservatives Can Love, was published in 2003, and was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. In his business life, Miller is a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, the global management consulting firm, where he serves clients in the firm's health care, strategy, public sector, education and nonprofit practices. He served in the Clinton White House from 1993 to 1995 as a senior advisor in the Office of Management and Budget. From 1991 to 1992, he was a White House Fellow, serving as special assistant to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

Is health care reform good for (big) business?

Roosevelt Institute Braintruster Matt Miller, author of The Tyranny of Dead Ideas, explains why big business wants to stay at the center of the healthcare debate.

American business is about to miss a historic opportunity. The stars are finally aligning in Washington for major health-care reform to be enacted in the next few months. President Obama’s courtship of the American Medical Association on Monday was the start of a charm offensive aimed at keeping every major stakeholder at the negotiating table (in the docs’ case, by signaling his openness to malpractice reform).

But the biggest mystery of the debate is the peculiar…