July 31 — that’s the deadline Obama administration officials and Democratic leaders in Congress have set to pass “comprehensive health-care reform.” What would the legislation include? No one has any idea:
The announcement did not describe the contents of the health care bill
— leaving key questions about funding, coverage and access for another
day.
Nor is this tidbit encouraging, if you recall the nightmare that is, was, and has been Bailout Nation:
The Obama strategy is to stay above the legislative fray, keeping
the process moving forward and the industry players in the mix until
the tough legislative choices are made this summer and fall.
Haven’t we been here before?
Over at Reason, Ronald Bailey explains why major players in the medical industry have pre-emptively surrrendered to the administration’s goals for government-run health care.
Meantime, Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger described her vision of consumer-driven health care in this CJ interview. Warning: These principles will be nearly impossible to find in anything Obama and congressional Dems have in mind.
