HEALTH CARE

The Four Health Care Deal-Busters

Critics are grumbling that some key Democratic ideas could cause the consensus for comprehensive reform to fall apart.

by Marilyn Werber Serafini

Saturday, April 4, 2009


Controversies over four proposals could derail health care reform: creating a public insurance plan to compete with private carriers; holding down costs by changing the way Medicare pays providers; imposing employer mandates; and finding the money to pay for reform.

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