{"id":303495,"date":"2010-02-10T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T21:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/health-care-summit-wrong-approach-bipartisan-health-care-reform-39276\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T21:30:05","slug":"health-care-summit-the-wrong-approach-to-bipartisan-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/303495","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Summit the Wrong Approach to Bipartisan Health Care Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 02.10.10 10:00 AM posted by Kathryn Nix<\/p>\n<p>Later this month, President Obama\u0092s health care summit will aim to highlight input from both Democrats and Republicans.* This last ditch effort for bipartisanship appears encouraging on the surface, but &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/community.npr.org\/ver1.0\/Direct\/Process&quot;&gt;many predict it will mean little more than theatrics and sound bites, rather than actual inclusion for the minority in the legislative process.<\/p>\n<p>If the President were serious about moving forward on health care with bipartisan support, he would conduct this meeting in a more serious manner.* Rather than create a public illusion of \u0093reaching out\u0094, the President would engage in serious discussions with not only Republicans, but with state and local legislators who also will play a role in enacting reform.* Most importantly, &lt;ahref=&quot;..\/2010\/02\/09\/obamas-health-care-summit-%e2%80%93-gimmick-or-negotiation\/&quot;&gt;the President would ask legislators to start afresh by abandoning current legislation and creating an improved bill from scratch.* By bringing both parties to the table to draft the legislation in the first place, lawmakers are more likely to find common ground on how best to proceed.* And, &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/healthcare.nationaljournal.com\/2010\/02\/obama-health-summit-republican.php&quot;&gt;as Heritage\u0092s Stuart Butler pointed out in a recent article in the National Journal, there is plenty of common ground to be found.* &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/healthcare.nationaljournal.com\/2010\/02\/obama-health-summit-republican.php&quot;&gt;Butler highlights the following areas as those which would address serious problems in our health care system with bipartisan support:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A firm Republican commitment to achieving affordable coverage for      all Americans in annual stages, starting now, in return for a WH agreement      to scale the current bills way back. &lt;spanid=&quot;more-26100&quot;&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A package of insurance reforms, such as extending HIPAA, designed      to deal with pre-existing conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An agreement to provide states funding to address high-risk and      chronically ill Americans through high-risk pools. In addition, giving      states <i>legislative<\/i> waivers for left or right ideas to expand      coverage &#8212; eg through the bipartisan &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/HealthCare\/wm1190.cfm&quot;&gt;Baldwin-Price House bill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An overhaul of the tax treatment of private health coverage to make      it efficient and to provide cost-reducing incentives &#8212; limiting the tax      exclusion by income to finance better tax relief for those who need it to      afford coverage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An effective and bipartisan health care bill is obtainable, but to achieve this, Congress and the President must seek it in a more sincere and productive manner.* The President\u0092s summit on health care is the wrong approach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/10\/health-care-summit-the-wrong-approach-to-bipartisan-health-care-reform\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/10\/&#8230;h-care-reform\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 02.10.10 10:00 AM posted by Kathryn Nix Later this month, President Obama\u0092s health care summit will aim to highlight input from both Democrats and Republicans.* This last ditch effort for bipartisanship appears encouraging on the surface, but &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/community.npr.org\/ver1.0\/Direct\/Process&quot;&gt;many predict it will mean little more than theatrics and sound bites, rather than actual inclusion for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}