House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Thursday that Congress has the ability to move forward on health care reform “on many fronts”. This would include “working to pass smaller parts of the legislation in separate bills while still negotiating a comprehensive reform package,” states Lea Winerman from PBS. One of the things Pelosi stated that they could do is remove the antitrust exemption for insurers. Winerman reports that, “She did not give a specific timetable for any of the legislation. But an aide told the Boston Globe that a series of such smaller bills could be unveiled before the mid-February recess.”
Pelosi did go on to say that some of the reforms would only work as part of a larger reform effort, and used the new insurance industry regulations as an example. According to Winerman, she then said, “You can’t really do the insurance reforms unless you have something else that goes with it — otherwise you have no leverage with the insurance industry.” Pelosi’s comments came after President Obama’s State of the Union address in which he “he urged lawmakers to move forward with health care reform but did not lay out a specific legislative path to do so,” states Winerman.
What do you think about Pelosi’s statement that health care reform will advance “on many fronts”?
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