Bill Clinton couldn't reform health care and George W. Bush didn't remake Social Security.
Because, to truly reform health care in America, we need more than a plan.
What we need to do if we're going to reform health care basically is four things.
The business and insurance communities played a key role in defeating attempts to reform health care in the 1990s.
These include measures to clarify the role of Japan's security forces, privatise parts of the postal service, reform health care and overhaul the tax code.
Looking back at President Clinton's failed attempt to reform health care in the 1990s, Orszag says that a lot has changed since then, including legislative strategy.
After a bad spell as a front-line wonk, leading her husband's failed effort to reform health care, she has retreated to safely feminine issues like children.
If we want to truly reform health care in this country, we need to prevent people from getting sick in the first place, and stop disease before it starts.
It may not be a coincidence that Mr Romney in Massachusetts and Mr Huntsman in Utah made the two biggest state-level efforts to reform health care (Mr Romney's reform even resembling Barack Obama's to a striking degree).
But The Washington Post poll from a couple of days ago had a number very similar to that of the poll that they did of voters after the Massachusetts election, and that is that a overwhelming majority wanted to see the effort to reform health care continue.
And he was an early critic of the Clintons' abortive 1993 effort to reform health care, arguing that with five out of six Americans covered by health insurance, and with free or subsidised care provided for the poor and elderly, the true crisis was not in the health system but the welfare system.
Certainly, there is much at stake for C-level executives when it comes to health care reform and health care coverage in general.
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And he may get something, he may get something, but isn't comprehensive health care reform, truly comprehensive health care reform, dead?
And instead of giving chippy interviews, it might be good to actually be part of negotiations and a solution to get health care reform -- to make health care reform a reality for the American people.
Washington-style health reform centralizes health care payment and delivery around big hospitals, big medical practices and big insurers.
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Despite his reputation as one of the most fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats -- he voted against and promised to help reform the health care reform law -- Marshall was unable to fend off a 2010 challenge in his Republican-leaning district by Austin Scott, who was backed by the tea party.
Obviously health care reform and the health care -- health care at large is such a huge entity that all of the players that I just mentioned are going to have to be involved, whether they're in Congress, whether they're in the White House, whether they represent constituencies that will be affected.
If you equate health care reform with a public option, then, well, health care reform is dead to you.
Does this mean the panel's version of health care reform will be what Americans get--or even that health care reform is a done deal?
While I am thrilled the budget assumes the passage of major health care reform this year, we still need to actually pass a health care reform bill for it to happen.
You're seeing companies like Wal-Mart lobbying for health care reform, and you're seeing the tech community get involved in health care reform as employers.
You're seeing companies like Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) lobbying for health care reform, and you're seeing the tech community get involved in health care reform as employers.
Keep in mind that for 70 years people have wanted to get health care reform done and in that 70 years we haven't had a vote on health care reform in the full House or the full Senate.
The President believes that, and I think you -- refer you to an interview that he did yesterday -- health care reform that passed in the Senate contains about 95 percent of what he wanted in health care reform.
So I don't -- it's hard to -- it would be hard to reconcile the notion that having health care reform didn't have confidence in doing this since they said the lack of health care reform is what caused -- purportedly caused such a sharp increase.
Part of the reason we did health care reform -- (applause.) A lot of the reason to do health care reform was because it was the right thing to do.
"Health care reform is my top priority and I look forward to working with these stakeholders as we consider a health care reform bill in the Finance Committee in June, " says a statement from Baucus.
Our health care reform permanently authorized the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, and the President signed into law the Tribal Law and Order Act, which will help fight crime in Indian Country.
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We finally passed health care reform to make sure that health care is affordable and available for every single American in the United States. (Applause.) And as part of reform, insurance companies will cover preventive care like mammograms with no out-of-pocket costs.
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