Health Care Reform Efforts Already Underway
The outcomes of the recent November election have dramatically changed the political landscape in Washington, D.C., and a number of factors have come together to create the best opportunity for reforming the nation’s health care system in well over a decade. In short, it is a realistic possibility that major health care reform of some kind could be enacted in 2009. Certainly, there will be no shortage of serious efforts by the nation’s policymakers to overhaul the health care system as we know it today, and several proposals are already circulating.
The 111th Congress scheduled to come into session on January 6, 2009 will feature strong Democratic majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, with leaders of key committees in both chambers anxious to introduce legislation to overhaul the nation’s health care system. At the same time, the incoming Obama Administration has signaled that health care reform will be considered a crucial aspect of its larger focus on promoting economic recovery as the nation’s financial crisis continues to worsen.
BIAA will work diligently in 2009 to make brain injury an essential part of the conversation on reforming the nation’s health care system.
