Congressman: 'skeletal' reform will pass in '93. (US Representative John Lewis on healthcare reform)

National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition, June, 1993 by Knowles, Robert G.

US Rep John Lewis (D-GA), in remarks at a healthcare symposium in Atlanta, GA, said that Congress would take up the issue of healthcare reform after the budget reconciliation act is passed, probably in late July. Lewis, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, said that he did not expect anything more than a skeletal framework for a national healthcare system to pass in 1993. Lewis thinks that Congress might authorize state guidelines and fund demonstration projects in Georgia and other states. Lewis feels that any proposal must be simple enough so that common people can understand it.

ATLANTA--Look for Congress to take up health care reform just as soon as it has completed debate on the budget reconciliation act, according to a speaker at a health care symposium...

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