100 Most Influential People in Healthcare – 2016

• Compensation: $246,800 - according to (House Press Gallery)
• Years on list: 2

When close cases show up on the U.S. Supreme Court's docket, SCOTUS watchers turn their attention to Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. A perennial swing vote, Kennedy joined the majority this year to strike down a Texas abortion law that opponents claimed restricted women's access to the procedure, preventing a 4-4 tie that would have kept the law on the books. The 80-year-old justice also penned a healthcare decision that held the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act protects self-funded insurers and their third-party administrators from sharing some data with states, thwarting states' ability to develop all-payer databases.