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Health care reform going forward

By AirTalk Staff
Published Jan 22, 2010
A ring of US twenty dollar bills with a bottle of prescription drugs and a stethoscope.
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Health care reform going forward
Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced yesterday that House Democrats would not have the votes to pass the Senate’s health care bill—the Democrats last-ditch effort to quickly pass a reform package before Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown is seated. Will the bill be broken into pieces so that politically popular provisions can quickly become law? If reform won’t come in a comprehensive package, what portions would you like to see Congress take up first?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced yesterday that House Democrats would not have the votes to pass the Senate’s health care bill—the Democrats last-ditch effort to quickly pass a reform package before Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown is seated. Will the bill be broken into pieces so that politically popular provisions can quickly become law? If reform won’t come in a comprehensive package, what portions would you like to see Congress take up first?

Guests:

Noam Levey, Staff Reporter, Los Angeles Times

Walter Zelman, Chairman of the Department of Health Science at Cal State Los Angeles