Health Care Reform: the Ripple Effect

It is hard to doubt that there is a widespread movement toward change regarding health care in the country. It is hard to detect when it started; it is obvious that we are in the midst of change but difficult to know where, difficult to know how much or how quickly change will cause recognizable difference. Some point to the upset senatorial victory of Harris Wofford in Pennsylvania as being the watershed. Others believe that for the last decade or so there has been foment. as the briefing to the Democratic members of the House and the President’s speech to the National Governors’ Association,4 are not detailed enough on specific choices to warrant writing a cluster of articles. We hope to have commentary on the President’s plan for health system reform. We will also include articles on state health reform.