An Outside-In Strategy for Health-Care Reform

The political compromise behind California's impressive health-care legislation may hold the key to creating a coalition for national reform.

I am not a big believer in universal health reform at the state level. For reasons I've outlined at length elsewhere, states tend to be too fiscally unstable to make such plans work. Even so, the proposal currently snaking its way through the California legislative process is an impressive feat of policy construction and political compromise -- and it may point toward the sort of coalition that can eventually be created for national reform. Full Story »

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Patricia Blochowiak
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by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct. 1, 2008

It never ceases to amaze me that people write stories about health care issues without interviewing doctors, nurses, or hospital or clinic administrators. This story about the High Earnings for Insurance Companies Bill in California fits that bill.

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