Health Care Reform

This is the second of two articles from Keith Hennessey, President Bush's Former National Economic Advisor, that we are posting on how the Massachusetts special election interacts with health care reform:

•Part 1: What happens to health care legislation if Scott Brown wins Massachusetts?
•Part 2: Procedural options for health care after a Brown victory

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This is the first of two articles from Keith Hennessey, President Bush's Former National Economic Advisor, that we will post on how the Massachusetts special election interacts with health care reform:

•Part 1: What happens to health care legislation if Scott Brown wins Massachusetts?
•Part 2: Procedural options for health care after a Brown victory

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The Massachusetts Senate race has three potential effects on health care reform:

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A lot of people are trying to look forward in time, attempting to predict how the health care legislative process will play out this fall. It is way too soon to make any concrete predictions – I can confidently say that the political dynamics will look quite different four weeks from today, but have no idea how they will look different. Neither does anyone else. There are certain things we can understand in advance. Yesterday I described why I think the “health insurance consumer protections” that are the central focus of the President’s and Speaker’s August message cannot work as a standalone piece of legislation. This is a substantive policy point and is independent of the political dynamics. Read more

The Senate's health committee approved legislation today that, if enacted, would vastly expand health insurance coverage in America and tighten restrictions on the way the industry operates. Read more

House Democrats unveiled their revised version of health care reform Tuesday, offering a proposal that includes a government-funded health insurance option, requires both individuals and employers to participate, and taxes the wealthy to help cover costs. Read more

Senate Democrats went public with their first health care reform plan Tuesday Read more

Bill Blake recently authored the following guest blog post to address the relationship between businesses, employees and health insurance costs.  Mr. Blake is the Executive Director of HealthCare Guaranteed a non profit organization dedicated to promoting a plan for comprehensive healthcare reform, the Guaranteed Healthcare Access Plan, authored by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, formerly Chairman of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health, and Prof. Read more