Panel Focuses on State-Led Health Care Reform
Mar 3rd, 2008 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Politics & PolicyA House Small Business Committee hearing last week demonstrated that the nation’s governors can often be more practical and less preachy than federal lawmakers when it comes to health care reform. Minnesota’s Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) and Pennsylvania’s Governor Ed Rendell (D) described their very different approaches to health care marketplace reform in their respective states but there were a few things they agreed on. First, both felt that the states are better suited to addressing the health care crisis, with a limited role for the federal government. At the same time, both expressed their willingness and eagerness to work with federal lawmakers on any reasonable policy they might want to put together but, as Governor Rendell put it, “Let’s get this done.”
