Feb 4 2011
California Healthline: When Health Repeal Was 'Catastrophic'
A president uses his pulpit to call for health reform, but initial agreement over the need for change eventually descends into partisan bickering. Angry constituents shout down lawmakers during congressional town halls. Congress ultimately faces pressure to repeal the health law. If this all sounds familiar, it's because it already happened — in the fight over the Medicare Catastrophic Care Act, more than two decades ago (Diamond, 2/2).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.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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