Whats standing out to you right now as far as the great debate thats going on?
“I’m very hopeful about the level of progress they’re making on health-care reform this time, and I say that because I was there in the middle of the storm when they last made this a major endeavor in 1993. I see such major improvements as to the progress they’ve made to this point and to the scope for the kind of reform. I’m feeling very positive about what is transpiring at this point.” What should people be paying attention to? A lot of this is detail that is probably fairly new to most of us. What should people be watching for in all of this? “There are kind of four things that I look at. No. 1 is that it’s universal. We’ve got to make sure that everybody is covered. This accounts for a lot of cost shifting in the health system that we have today. We need to make sure that everybody is covered. “The second is that it needs to be portable, meaning that it’s not tied to your job. If you’re laid off, if you’re in between jobs, you still have insurance coverage. It isn’t tied to your e
