Daily News Updates - Health Insurance News

Health Insurance & Capitol Hill, Pt.6 – Who will be the ‘honchos’?

Previous…

This new health insurance/care reform initiative began in June and was launched by Senator Grassley and Max Baucus. Mr. Baucus heads the Finance Committee and the two laid the groundwork, culminating from a series of meetings for this serious health insurance/care reform program. The common goal for this bi-partisan effort was to merge ideas and become poised for negotiations with whomever would become our next president by January. Again, the failing economy appears to be a looming obstacle. In its favor, though, is the undeniable need for serious health insurance/care reform. Catching it early this way has the benefit of the fresh funding afforded to that new person coming into office. As to who the big players will be, it is expected that if Mr. Obama becomes ‘the man’, his chief players will probably be the Kennedy-Baucus-Dingell team. Should Mr. McCain be the man, then his honchos will likely be the Grassley-McConnell team. In any case, Senator Wyden, because of his 'junior’ status will probably not have his name attached to the forthcoming bill.

The announcement of this radical health insurance/care reform bill is immediately stirring controversy. If Mr. Goldstein’s objective in writing his article was to generate feedback and interaction, he certainly succeeded. As opposed to many ‘blog-fests’ on controversial topics, Mr. Goldstein has managed to evoke an community of rational and informed respondents concerning health insurance/care. Many of these are worthy of further discussion and will be treated in the next series entitled “Health Insurance, Capitol Hill & Blogs”.

Continued…