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...page white paper eight days after the election, was even more ambitious than Obama's, adding a requirement that individuals who are not covered by their employers purchase their own health insurance, much as car owners must carry auto insurance.(Read "Senate Democrats Optimistic on Health Reform...
...while many have argued that health-care reform should be postponed until the economy is fixed, Baucus has put his foot on the accelerator with a declaration that he intends to see it passed in the Senate by August. "This is kind of why I hired out for this job," he told me on a recent morning in his Western-themed Senate office. "Now is the time. The stars are aligned...
That, of course, remains to be seen. Baucus' importance in reforming the health-care system, however, has grown. Unlike the Clinton health-care campaign that ran aground in 1994, the Obama White House's plan is to give Congress the lead in fashioning health-care-reform legislation. And the two Democrats who had been expected to spearhead that task have been sidelined. Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination to be Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services in early February amid revelations of tax problems, and Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Health Committee...
...eyes are now on Baucus, whose Finance Committee has always been integral to figuring out how to pay for health-care reform. But it wasn't initially clear that he was the ideal point man for the overall effort. "People had been concerned that [Baucus] was not as knowledgeable about the full breadth of health care," says Andy Stern, head of the Service Employees International Union, which has been at the forefront of the drive for health-care reform. "But he's there. He understands the contours of the debate. He understands the nuances involved. He's pushing everybody...
Others are more sanguine. "It's not an existential crisis, but it is a nuisance," says Hugo Brady, from the Centre for European Reform, a London-based think tank. "Luckily, there are mechanisms to keep things going. The E.U. is to some extent above politics - although that is part of its problem - and officials can pick up the slack if politicians cannot deliver...