BU Now » healtcare reform http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow News, information and research from Boston University Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Healthcare bill advances in Senate http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2009/12/21/healthcare-bill-advances-in-senate/ http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2009/12/21/healthcare-bill-advances-in-senate/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:31:50 +0000 Dick Taffe http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/?p=4027 healthcare reformIn a dramatic middle-of-the-night vote, Democrats won a 60-40 procedural vote on the Senate healthcare-reform bill which they hope to pass on Christmas Eve.  School of Management Professor Stephen Davidson, whose book “Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Healthcare System” will be published soon, says in a Huffington Post commentary that progressive should take the best they can get, pass it, and improve it later.

“We should see this episode as part of a continuing saga, rather than as a process that ends with the President’s signature on a new law enacted by this Congress. This is a bill worth supporting. Then, on the day after it passes, begin to organize to make it better.”

Contact Stephen Davidson, 617-353-7422, sdavidso@bu.edu

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