When Democrats reportedly reached an agreement last week to use a Senate procedural process called reconciliation to prevent a filibuster of health care legislation, it was further evidence that health care reform was being fast tracked and system changes may be coming before year’s end. Now that former republication Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania has become a democrat, at least one health care policy expert says reform legislation could happen as early as this summer.
“I think once the bill is out, it will move as fast as they can so as to give opponents as little time as possible to get their acts together,” said Henry Aaron, senior fellow on health care with the Brookings Institute.
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