Healthcare bill to Obama’s desk

Dick Taffe — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:17:04 +0000

President Obama said it was answering ”the call to history” when the House passed the Senate’s version of healthcare reform and sent the bill to his desk for signing. Political Science Professor Graham Wilson, author of “Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective,” says GOP unity in opposition shows how far right the party has moved on domestic policy since the days of Richard Nixon.

“But the situation so baffling to citizens of other democracies in which the United States was the only advanced democracy in the world that did not have health insurance for all its citizens is over.”

Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, gkwilson@bu.edu

Last-ditch healthcare reform bid

Dick Taffe — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:11:56 +0000

President Obama is making a final effort to get the public to push Congress to pass healthcare reform, bashing the insurance industry for predatory pricing practices. School of Management Professor Stephen Davidson, author of “Still Broken: Understandng the U.S. Healthcare System,” says the facts are on the side of reform, but the White House hasn’t made the benefits appear compelling to individual voters.

“Framing the issue as profiteering insurers against ordinary citizens who need medical care should resonate with the public. If reform fails, costs will continue to rise, more and more people will lose coverage (and no one’s coverage is safe), and quality will continue to decline.”

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

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Healthcare bill to Obama’s desk

Last-ditch healthcare reform bid