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Article: Healthcare reform: will the minimalist approach continue?(Column)
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- Healthcare Financial Management
- Article date:
- February 1, 1997
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"Supporters of [the] Kassebaum-Kennedy [act] have justified it as a kind of confidence builder for a Congress nervous about any action on health care. But the debate will move ahead only when enough people lose confidence that minimalism is enough."
- Princeton University Professor Paul Starr, commenting on whether healthcare reform will proceed beyond the first steps of the 1996 Kassebaum-Kennedy act.
If anything has come out of the first four years of the Clinton presidency, it is a new popular appreciation for the wisdom of our founding fore-bears in creating the checks and balances designed to make rapid changes in national policy almost impossible. ...