In an interview last week with the newspaper Politico, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated that the path to passing health reform legislation would take two tracks. First, incremental changes that are mirrored in both bills, such as restricting insurance underwriting practices, establishing a Medicare hospital value-based purchasing program, and providing tax credits to small businesses, will be advanced through Congress as soon as feasible. Other issues of contention will be advanced at a later time, or not at all. These include the establishment of health insurance exchanges, taxes on high cost benefit plans, and new taxes.
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