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...corporations to provide robust and affordable insurance to its employees. Major companies in the United States employ many of the nation's more than 40 million uninsured. There for big labor was Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union, a long-time champion of health care reform who has been criticized by some on the left for working in coalition with Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott on this effort. Pennsylvania's Democratic governor Ed Rendell and California's Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger (appearing by satellite ) were there, both discussing their major ongoing efforts to pass comprehensive reform this...
...divisive and complex as the Iraq war has been, health care reform promises to be an even bigger challenge, in part because of its vast expense, but more so because of the polarizing impact it continues to have on the country. A member of the coalition, former Republican Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee, compared the challenge of reform to the bipartisan efforts made on civil rights in the 1960s and the environment in the 1970s. Baker knows Washington's political culture has changed for the worse since he retired several years ago, so while his description...
...Clintons learned during the last major effort to change the medical financing system, major interest group and corporate opposition can pick a plan apart, and the specters of increased taxes (a feature of the state reform plans), increased government bureaucracy, and cuts in payments to health care providers means that blocking serious change isn't very difficult...
...opinion polls continue to show high public interest in the issue - a fact not lost on the Democratic Presidential candidates, who talk regularly about the need for comprehensive reform, or even the Republican candidates, who do not, yet. And as the size and broad-based influence of the group Better Health Care Together is putting together suggests, there is now a large and diverse coalition that believes that the nation can simultaneously fight a war in Iraq and begin the process of making the biggest single social policy change in American history...
...Chirac had excluded in favor of a collective United Nations approach. "The upside of Sarkozy having no unified international agenda is he can remain pragmatic and flexible - base decisions on practicality rather than deep principle," Reynié says. "The downside is his domestic economic program does the same by favoring reform and market forces, but reserving the right to intervention and state leadership when necessary. That approach lets you weave through conflict, but it can also cause confusion, or even chaos...