Fixing Our Health Care System Means Getting to 60 Senate Votes
18th March 2008
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Given that 47 million Americans are without health insurance and as many as 40 percent who have coverage are underinsured, the 2008 election is likely to be a mandate on health care for all, a panel of health care and political experts told a Take Back America symposium today. The annual conference, in Washington, D.C., which runs through Wednesday, brings together activists and organizers to discuss strategies for moving progressive strategies that address the economy, foreign policy, health care and more.
Jacob Hacker, an economist and political science professor at Yale University and author of the Health Care for America proposal, said health care advocates need to develop a "template" that doesn't compromise core health care principles but one that also can win the political support needed to be enacted.
There are a lot of good ideas out there that don't stand a chance of passage and there are a lot of bad ideas out there that seem to be in favor among certain constituencies and the hope is one can put one really good alternative on the table that can be passed.