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Article: HEALTH CARE Health care reform, not just insurance reform The Baucus bill is a good start in getting the nation to the goal of universal health care, but more tweaking is needed to make this bill true reform and to corral costs.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2009
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Another in a series of editorials on efforts to reform the
nation's health care system.
Max Baucus accomplished at least two things as he nipped and
tucked the health care bill his Senate Finance Committee will
consider Tuesday.
First, the Montana Democrat bloodied almost every one of the
nation's prominent health care interest groups; second, the
committee produced the only bill that stands a fighting chance of
attracting enough centrist Democrats to gain passage. Both are good
things.
The Baucus bill would remake one-sixth of the nation's economy in
an essential reform that is now closer than at any time since
President Harry S. Truman ripped the "do-nothing 80th Congress" for
opposing ...