Senate Staff Members Predict Broad Health Care and Insurance Reforms This Year

Senate Staff Members Predict Broad Health Care and Insurance Reforms This Year in Politics and Legislation

Looking back on 2008, we’ve seen plenty ups and downs. And the one consistent “down,” as any interested health care observer knows, is the health care and insurance industry.

High spending, high costs for care, high health insurance premiums.

So what’s to come in 2009?

A few staff members for the U.S. Senate are predicting that health reform will indeed happen in 2009. According to the CCH Washington Bureau, these staffers spoke at an Alliance for Health Reform and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation forum in Washington, D.C.

Here’s just a few excerpts of what they had to say:

“We have a great opportunity this year to get health care reform done if everyone is willing to work together on it,” said Republican Health Policy Advisor for the Senate Finance Committee, Mark Hayes.

“I don’t think Senator Kennedy has ever been more confident of our ability to actually deliver on the promise of national health reform than we are right now,” affirmed John McDonough, a health aide to U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy.

“The window is open extremely wide and all options are on the table,” added Jocelyn Moore, a spokesperson for U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller.

What’s to come? Only time will tell.

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