Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review: There Will Not Be Health Care Reform in 2009 Without Republican Leadership

by Robert Laszewski, president of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, LLC (HPSA), a policy and marketplace consulting firm specializing in assisting its clients through the significant health policy and market change afoot.

I will suggest that there is an opportunity for the Republicans to score a huge political and policy win. It can be done in a bipartisan way and it can be done in a way that does not sell out the core principles that either Republicans or Democrats believe in. It would require a new effort—a clean sheet—this time initiated by the Republicans.

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