Three Fixes to Senate Health Care Bill
Henry Aaron, senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and an expert on health care legislation, wrote an article in the New York Daily News last week about three fixes that would improve Sen. Max Baucus’s (D-Mont.) health care legislation, which is now being melded with another Senate measure before heading to the floor.
The reforms he suggests seem reasonable: make purchasing health insurance more affordable, adjust employer penalties to ensure that they don’t adversely impact low- and middle-income workers, and reduce administrative red tape. These would seem to be relatively non-controversial fixes to a bill that Aaron thinks, if improved, would be a “huge step forward.”