Health Care Reform: What's Possible?

By Dan Bammes

Salt Lake City, UT –

Since the Utah legislature passed a bill setting up a task force to study comprehensive health care reform, everybody with a stake in the issue has been bringing out ideas and issues for discussion, hoping to see its positions reflected in the final recommendations.

The Utah Health Policy Project brought Len Nichols to Salt Lake City to address the issue. He's a health care economist with the New America Foundation, a think tank based in Washington, DC. Nichols was involved in the Clinton administration's failed attempt at comprehensive reform, and today he says all three leading candidates for president have ideas that will be important to any solution. And he says there's at least one excellent proposal coming out of Congress.