What kinds of health-care reforms has the president proposed to Congress?
Rossiter: The president proposed three things in his State of the Union address regarding health care. First, tax policy, in which he will recommend changes in the way the Internal Revenue Service treats our spending on health care for tax purposes. In fact, this will is the lead portion of the reforms. By that I mean he is looking more to the Department of the Treasury and IRS for health-care reforms then he is going to look to the Department of Health and Human Services. The second thing is changes in health insurance regulations. It’s actually very bold for a Republican president to recommend federal regulation to the health insurance industry, which has traditionally fallen to the states to regulate. The last thing has three parts really—information, competition and malpractice. He will recommend improved information for consumers to help make decisions, which will encourage competition among hospitals and doctors and other kinds of providers. Also, he will pull up the old malpract
