Shift in Health Care Congress puts on the table
The health sector is back in the national political scene during 2007, the creation of parties in conflict, the Congress of the few with the end of the veto by President Bush and contributing to the definition of presidential campaigns 2008.
After years in which Iraq and national security dominated the debate - and memories of Bill Clinton in 1994 health plan debacle of great health policy changes radioactive - the return of democracy in the control of the House of Representatives and the Senate and presidential campaigns Ramping, it is anticipated that the public health policy in the legislative procedure Mix.
Two House Democrats’, in its first priority “Sechs’06″ Agenda campaign participates in health care. Within the first 100 hours of the new Democratic Congress guide bills passed in the house, that lifting the restrictions would be federal funded research on embryonic stem cells and the government to negotiate lower prices for Medicare drugs addressee. Your colleagues in the Senate, where it has 60 votes for a bill to move to say on these issues will be on the agenda are there, but they are unlikely to be faster.
Key legislators and their assistants in the other two parties, say, health policy initiatives are likely to surface for the renewal of the federal health insurance for children of working poor, expanding access to health insurance in general, and enhance the safety of drugs up efforts with the Food and Drug Administration. Even in the works of efforts for the promotion of electronic commerce, medical records, the easing of restrictions on imports of Low-Cost-prescription drugs from Canada, to develop a better method of payment by doctors in the framework Medicare and improving drug coverage subsidized for low-income Medicare - Receiver.
“It’s really great excitement in our page on the passage in Congress,” said Wendell Primus, senior adviser on budget and health issues at home speaker chooses Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif. ). “The members are ready to get down to work.”
Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), the Top Republican in the Senate Finance Committee, said that several issues are ripe for bipartie compromise, but that others, such as drug price negotiations, is more controversial. The development program for the uninsured is also difficult, he said, “because Democrats such as small business insurance reform, the Republicans do, and they never get a universal plan because it has, quite rightly, Hillary Care return, and everyone knows what has been a debacle. ”
Kevin Smith, spokesman for incoming House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said Republicans are trying, working with Democrats, but “when they start Charting a path that we feel this is not good for the American people, then there are very few fights interest on Capitol Hill.
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