Jan 18 2010
Kaiser Health News staff writer Phil Galewitz reports on the Chamber's latest take on the next steps in health reform. "Despite unleashing a new round of TV spots last week that blasts congressional Democrats' health overhaul, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce acknowledged at a media briefing Tuesday that the fight is just about over.
R. Bruce Josten, the chamber's executive vice president of government affairs, predicted that House and Senate negotiators would finish their work and get a final bill to President Barack Obama by mid-to-late February. Still, Chamber CEO Thomas J. Donahue suggested that there will still be time to change the legislation as it's implemented over the next four years" (1/12). Read entire story.
 This article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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