Bipartisan Policy Center Scales Back Health Reform Expectations

The Bipartisan Policy Center turned pessimistic about the prospect of Congress comprehensively changing the health care system and is instead focusing on smaller reforms that Congress can make when it next deals with the Medicare physician pay formula and on changes CMS can make administratively. The center released a white paper Tuesday (Aug. 19) that scales back expectations for overhauling the health care system. The white paper is the first in a series on changes to the fee-for-service Medicare and...