I was on Sound Medicine again this weekend:
Well, it looks like the health care reform process that’s been alive, and then comatose, is now flickering back to life.As we record this mid-week, President Obama is laying out what he hopes will be the end-game to get the House to approve the bill that has already passed the Senate …with the understanding that then, the Senate will go back and amend its version so that both sides can pass it.
And as one step, the President has said that he SUPPORTS four adjustments to the measure that Republicans have proposed.
Here to walk us through what those changes would be is our regular analyst on this topic, Dr. Aaron Carroll.
Dr. Aaron Carroll directs the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research at the IU School of Medicine. He’s a regular contributor to this program.
Listen to the interview.
Most of the time you hear me on the radio, it’s stricyly policy.
Regional NPR asked me to do something more opinion based. So you get this.
From Sound Medicine.
September 26th, 2009
Aaron
Another holiday weekend for me, so it’s light blogging. To tide you over, go listen to me on Sound Medicine:
C-Span fans have had a field day this week: watching live broadcasts of the Senate Finance Committee “mark-up” of the health care reform legislation introduced last week by Montana Democratic Senator Max Baucus.
The consensus seems to be that a final bill will contain new regulations for insurance companies…some form of requirement that just about everyone buy health insurance…and subsidies for people who can’t afford their premiums.
But the devil, well, you know how that saying ends!
Sound Medicine’s health care policy analyst Dr. Aaron Carroll joined me in the studio a little earlier this week for an update on where things seem to be headed.
Aaron Carroll is associate professor of pediatrics and director for the Center of Health Policy and Professionalism Research.
Go listen!
