Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a nonprofit research organization focusing on patient-centered solutions to health reform.
Just as challenges to the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act all failed, challenges to health reform are failing as well.
Yet standing in the way of this boundless potential is an Obama administration whose entire approach to health reform revolves around the idea that patients are not unique and that bureaucrats can develop standardized treatments that will apply to almost everybody with a given condition.
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For a number of these organizations, CLASS was their principal motivation to support national health reform, and to them, health reform that did not address the need for long-term services and supports for persons with disabilities was not worthy of the name health reform.
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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.
After a historic vote in the House to send health reform to the President, he speaks to all Americans on the change they will finally see as they are given back control over their own health care.
Do you think there is -- some progressive groups called for House members who want to repeal the health reform law to renounce their health insurance.
From our efforts to rescue the economy, to health insurance reform, to financial reform, most have sat on the sidelines and shouted from the bleachers.
So, because we know that spiraling health care costs are crushing families and dragging down the entire economy, and because we know it represents one of the fastest-growing parts of our budget, we've made a historic commitment to health care reform in this budget -- reform that brings us closer to the day when health care is affordable and accessible for every single American.
We must act now to change the debate from health care reform to health system invention.
Unable to purchase private coverage due to his serious pre-existing condition (a problem that will no longer exist thanks to health care reform), Shepherd had no other option but to go on Medicaid.
Talking to Ruth, she reminds me it's not easy keeping up with health care costs, and so Ruth is very anxious to see health reform passed so that small businesses can pick up the cost for their employees.
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And when it comes to health care reform, I believe I have exactly the experience we need to get it done in my first term as President.
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.
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.
And what is most important to this President, as we continue to implement health care reform, as it regards the political debate, is that the choice here is going to be do we continue implementing health care reform that ensures that if you have a preexisting condition you cannot be denied health insurance?
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).
Repealing Medicare cuts will only add to health care reform's costs without altering reform's basic shape.
Tradeoffs are an essential part of the discussion when it comes to health care reform.
Today, we mark an important milestone on the road to health insurance reform and higher education reform.
Some were indifferent to health care reform, while others were vehemently against it.
Had it been allowed to play out, Kerr-Mills could have evolved into an effective, federalist approach to health care reform.
Do you sense that the people that you're discussing have moved off of their universal opposition to health care reform?
But as opposition to health care reform heated up, that dominance flipped.
Before President Obama was even elected, Utah studied this issue and decided to take a market-based, business-friendly approach to health system reform.
McCain's free market approach to health care reform is very different from the proposals offered by the Democratic presidential candidates, Sens.
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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Could this be enough to open people up to contemplating that there may just be other good news to come thanks to health care reform?
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