Sen. Mike Enzi on Health Care Reform

Marguerite Bowling / May 12, 2009

Fresh out of a roundtable hearing in the Senate Finance Committee this morning on models for financing health care reform, Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming said Congress will need to take a bipartisan approach as it prepares to markup and debate major health care reform legislation. “And I don’t mean bipartisan like on the economic stimulus bill,” Enzi quipped during his speech at the Heritage Foundation today.

While some components of the in the current health care debate have become nonnegotiable for both sides of the aisle — such as the creation of a public health insurance option that would compete in the private insurance market — Enzi said there is plenty of opportunities for Republicans and Democrats to find a compromise in a final health care reform bill. (more…)