The proposal would put off changing the formula for a few years until reform demonstrations proved effective.
By Doug Trapp, AMNews staff. Posted May 11, 2009.
Washington -- Senate Finance Committee leaders on April 28 offered a list of ideas for the first third of a national health reform bill, but a private discussion between senators and their staffs the next day did not produce significant agreements on the proposed solutions.
Nevertheless, the 48-page draft, which addressed improving patient care and reducing costs, provided more detail on the direction Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D, Mont.) and highest-ranking Republican Charles Grassley (Iowa) would like to take health system reform. The draft was released after the first of three Finance public roundtable discussions. More policy option papers and private discussions were to follow the two remaining roundtable meetings, scheduled for May 5 and May 12.....
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