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Health-Reform Principles That Can Cross Party LinesThe Health Reform Roundtable, a diverse group of health care policy experts from across the political spectrum, is proposing opportunities for bipartisan agreement on subsidies for health care coverage and on Medicaid. In their op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, the Roundtable proposes the following recommendations:
The Roundtable believes these propsitions deserve support transcending partisanship and ideology. They are intended to ensure adequate help is provided to those in greatest need. "Roundtable members with vastly differing views have done a remarkable job finding common ground on crucial issues now before Congress. We hope they will continue to generate ideas that lead to wise and durable improvements in the American health care system." ~ Robert J. Fersh, President and Founder, Convergence (News - Alert) Center for Policy Resolution. The Health Reform Roundtable is convened by Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, Convergence is a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization that convenes people and groups with divergent views to build trust, identify solutions, and form alliances for action on critical national issues. Roundtable organizers Ron Pollack and Gail Wilensky asked Convergence to convene some of the leading health care analysts and thinkers on the right and left in a "strange bedfellows" effort to develop widely supportable, consensus ideas for Congress and the administration to consider as they deliberate on health care reform. The Health Reform Roundtable began meeting in March 2017. Op-Ed Authors*
Joseph Antos, is a Resident Scholar and the Wilson H. Taylor
Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at American Enterprise
Institute *Roundtable members have joined in their individual capacities with institutional affiliations provided for identification purposes only. For more information about Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, please visit www.convergencepolicy.org. View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170626005860/en/ |