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Volume 361:1720-1722 October 29, 2009 Number 18
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Four Health Care Reforms for 2009
Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.D.

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Prospects for the enactment of some reform look good, but comprehensive, sustainable reform of the health care system must wait for another day. Republican support for President Barack Obama's ambitious agenda is fading fast, if it ever existed. An imaginative, truly bipartisan approach that moves the system away from employer-sponsored insurance — the Wyden–Bennett plan — has failed to gain any traction. Within the Democratic majority, sharp disagreements in each house, and between the House and Senate, do not augur well for coherent legislation, even if political compromises can be struck.

Disappointment with the reaction of some of the public . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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From Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

This article (10.1056/NEJMp0907979) was published on October 7, 2009.




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