Obama On Right Path To Health Care Reform
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March 2, 2009
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Obama on right path to health care reform
IT WOULD BE WRONG to dismiss President Obama's remarks last week on health care reform and the administration's budget plan discussing reform principles as long on rhetoric and short on detail.
There is no denying that few new details came out last week. The administration, for example, didn't lay out all revenue sources needed to move the nation close to universal coverage, nor did it detail what new rules employers offering coverage would have to meet.
That lack of detail is neither surprising nor, do we think, disturbing. Given that President Obama has been in office only a few weeks, it would be unrealistic to expect him and his administration to have produced a detailed health care reform road map.
Just as important, we don't think it would be desirable for the administration to single-handedly produce such a plan. In something as complicated as health care reform, legislation needs to be a collaborative effort of the executive and legislative branches.
To his credit, President Obama says that is the path he intends to take.
We think President Obama's remarks and his proposed budget are significant in that the administration intends to work toward enactment of health care reform legislation in the right way.
Given the magnitude of the other issues facing the new administration, it would be understandable if President Obama put health care reform legislation on the back burner.
But that is not his plan, as he made clear, and that decision is a good one.
A health care system in which about 15% of Americans are uninsured and where costs-already the highest in the world-continue to outpace inflation is one that clearly is in need of major reform.
March 5, 2009
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March 2, 2009
OPINIONS; Pg. 8
277 words
Obama on right path to health care reform
IT WOULD BE WRONG to dismiss President Obama's remarks last week on health care reform and the administration's budget plan discussing reform principles as long on rhetoric and short on detail.
There is no denying that few new details came out last week. The administration, for example, didn't lay out all revenue sources needed to move the nation close to universal coverage, nor did it detail what new rules employers offering coverage would have to meet.
That lack of detail is neither surprising nor, do we think, disturbing. Given that President Obama has been in office only a few weeks, it would be unrealistic to expect him and his administration to have produced a detailed health care reform road map.
Just as important, we don't think it would be desirable for the administration to single-handedly produce such a plan. In something as complicated as health care reform, legislation needs to be a collaborative effort of the executive and legislative branches.
To his credit, President Obama says that is the path he intends to take.
We think President Obama's remarks and his proposed budget are significant in that the administration intends to work toward enactment of health care reform legislation in the right way.
Given the magnitude of the other issues facing the new administration, it would be understandable if President Obama put health care reform legislation on the back burner.
But that is not his plan, as he made clear, and that decision is a good one.
A health care system in which about 15% of Americans are uninsured and where costs-already the highest in the world-continue to outpace inflation is one that clearly is in need of major reform.
March 5, 2009
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