Will Obama Health Care Prevail?, Pt.7 – The mark of
survival: Bi-partisanship.
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Admittedly, there
are still many unknowns. Fine details are not available of
specific financing allocations for subsidizing health
insurance; employer assessment for those not providing health
insurance; handling small businesses now; or the specifics on
what Mr. Obama considers ‘adequate health insurance’.
Executive vice president
of the Kaiser Family Foundation, Diane Rowland explains to us
that the new president’s budget would traditionally not be
drafted and presented until late in March or early in April.
That would likely be the time when these specifics will be
nailed down.
In the meantime, things are
still moving forward. Mr. O is forming his cabinet of
well-respected and largely non-partisan experts in the various
areas. For the “Health and Human Services Secretary”: Tom
Daschle, former Senate Majority Leader, D-S.D and; Howard Dean,
chairman of the DNC and physician are being considered.
Through bipartisan briefings, senior staff members and U.S.
representatives' are being educating in
health
insurance/care seminars. These Seminars are
being hosted by various nonprofit
health insurance/care policy organizations. Some of these
are: The Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation.
Noting the downfall of trying
to slide a prepackaged
health insurance package through Congress was well-illustrated
by the Clinton defeat in 1993. Ms. Rowland
expects that people today have learned that lesson. She
believes that Obama will take that wisdom and produce a forum
for all the important players to be part of the
health
insurance reform construction.
That method worked well in
Massachusetts with the universal health insurance model. A
host of diverse leaders like Mitt Romney, Ted Kennedy,
Michael Leavitt,
George W
and the bipartisan state
senatorial group pieced it all together. Though not perfect,
the plan has repeatedly turned in good grades.
Continued…
November
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