CAPITOL COMMENTS: A GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS UPDATE

摘要

We have recently come away from a Small Business Health Plan (SBHP) Coalition meeting and have a copy of the latest version of a SBHP compromise bill. We are not going to provide details because it is a very early draft and will probably not look anything like its current form if it is ever introduced. We will say that it is so far removed from earlier bills that have passed the House (but failed in the Senate) that one would be hard-pressed to believe that the earlier bills were attempting to address the same concerns as this latest version. We only point this out to illustrate the distance traveled and the distance left in this trip. From an association perspective, we will probably give up some very substantial goals but we have been warning about this for some time now. On the other hand, if we are truly able to move toward a compromise solution to the health care dilemma facing most of you, then we would call that progress.