The country’s health care system is in crisis. The number of uninsured Americans is at an all-time high, health insurance premiums are rising, health disparities are plaguing our nation and Medicaid is under major strain. While I wholeheartedly support broad health reform, we’ll never get there if policymakers can’t even implement gradual reforms that have broad-based support.
We all remember the television program “Crossfire,” where the moderator’s goal was to encourage heated debate between people on opposing sides of an issue. I’ve come up with an alternative: the “Ceasefire on Health Care: Finding Common Ground for the Uninsured” series to stimulate dialogue among leading bipartisan policymakers and advocates. Over the last year, I have moderated several events in which participants are encouraged to come to an agreement on health care issues and public policies.
Since the inauguration of Ceasefire, I have held forums featuring prominent health care reform advocates, among them former HHS Secretaries Donna Shalala and Tommy Thompson, and Senator Hillary Clinton and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. I...
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