Will Obama’s Health Care Bill Be A Plagiarized Product?

If Obama is drafting his own version of the health care bill, and that CNN is correct regarding a “trigger option”, then at least Obama actually wants it done, although fairly late in game since almost no Republican is left for negotiation.  One good example: Grassley says he will defeat Obamacare.

This trigger option seems to suggest Obama will be plagiarizing Bipartisan Policy Center’s ideas.  In the world of policy development, being violated (the copy right of your policy idea, of course) is a good thing.  What does Bipartisan Policy Center say?  Why does Obama listen to this one?  Remember there are thousands of “think tanks”, advocacy groups and lobbyists who have plenty of ideas (guess where lobbyists’ policy ideas come from?).  So why Bipartisan Policy Center? 

Bipartisan Policy Center is created by all the living Senate Majority Leaders (Dole, Republican; Baker Republican; and Daschle, Democrat).  Taking their work probably does not only symbolize that Obama is buying a plan that has 2/3 of Republican input, but taking Republican ideas seriously into lasting piece of foundation to the country.  Is it a tactic or philosophic in substance?  Hard to say.  Does it increase the probability of getting done?  Yes, but how much?  That will have to depend on the sales delivery mechanism.  Will it be LBJ style where Obama will be calling each Congressmen, their donor, mother, children, gardener and babysitter?  Will it be an air war about Republicans defeating their own ideals?  It reads like Obama will want to avoid fighting. 

If you want to have advanced information about how this policy will affect your favorite health insurance companies such as Cigna, Aetna (NYSE:AET), Humana (NYSE:HUM), UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) Blue Cross Blue Shield (http://bcbs.com), then consider reading Pillar 2.  The main piece of recommendation from Bipartisan Policy Center that is related to health insurance companies such as is in Pillar 2.  If you want to find out how it will affect balance sheet of health care delivery companies (hospitals and so on) like Health Management Associates (NYSE:HMA), Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH), then Pillar 1 and Pillar 4.  Pillar 3 has something interesting about laws concerning patients.  Of course all 4 pillars are important to all vested parties, be they practitioners, insurers, buyers, support systems (technology service providers).