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The federal health care law has a lot in common with TennCare, says former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
“They both began with a benefit package that was very rich and had no effective cost controls or cost accountability in the system,” Frist said during a recent conversation in Washington.
There are elements within the bill he likes, Frist says, but the costs render it unsustainable in its present form.
Frist, a former heart surgeon, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994, reelected in 2000, and retired...
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read moreWith Congress passing the Health Care Reform Bill last night, Senator Frist has been doing several interviews discussing his take on the bill and what it means for this country. Below we will be adding the interviews for you to view and discuss.
Here is Senator Frist’s interview on CNBC about the Health Care Reform Bill.
Though we come from different political backgrounds and disagree on key aspects of health-care reform, we share a deep concern about provisions of proposed legislation that would establish a super-powerful board to dictate the future of Medicare.
While the new entity, an “Independent Payment Advisory Board,” addresses a growing problem, its structure in the current legislation raises serious constitutional and process questions that Congress must confront.
The board, intended to help control Medicare costs – which, all...
read moreSenator Frist has been on TV lately discussing the recent Health Care Summit. Here is the link to watch Senator Frist on Charlie Rose, on 2/25/10. Below is his appearance on Larry King Live.
Using ‘reconciliation’ to ram through health reform would only deepen partisan passions.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced that while Democrats have a number of options to complete health-care legislation, he may use the budget reconciliation process to do so. This would be an unprecedented, dangerous and historic mistake.
Budget reconciliation is an arcane Senate procedure whereby legislation can be passed using a lowered threshold of requisite votes (a simple majority) under fast-track rules that...
read moreIn a bid to reopen the debate over health care reform, President Obama has arranged a televised bipartisan meeting this Thursday. Republican leaders in Congress have been invited to bring their best ideas for slowing the growth of health care expenditures and expanding the number of insured Americans. The Op-Ed editors asked five conservative thinkers to outline what they believe those ideas should be.
President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have failed at health care reform. They have failed because they fundamentally don’t...
read moreAmericans have once again demonstrated when it comes to health reform, they are most comfortable with incremental, not comprehensive, policy changes.
With an increasingly distrustful public, a real-dollar price tag of over $2 trillion, policies that fail to address out-of-control cost escalation and a federal debt that is projected to grow from $12.3 to $21 trillion over the next decade (before new health entitlement spending is even added), comprehensive health reform is dead.
The turning point was January 19 when Republican...
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