Healthcare Reform Republican Style Story aired: Tuesday, January 24, 2006
President Clinton and then-First Lady Hillary Clinton were accused of overreaching in the early 1990s when they tried to revamp the nation's employer-based health insurance system.
And now President Bush presents his plan.
The president is expected to call for additional tax breaks such as making out-of-pocket medical expenses like co-payments, tax deductible. It is a suggestion that is part of a bigger move on the part of the president advisors and some conservative policy analysts who want to change longstanding policy and shift the cost of healt care from employers to workers, in an effort to make workers more aware of the high cost of care, and perhaps, spend less on it.
Guests:
Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia University Business School. He is the former chairman of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers
Kenneth Thorpe is chairman of the Health Policy Department at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia
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