On health bill, GOP's road is a new map

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New York Times, February 9, 2010

If Congressional Republicans decide to participate in President Obama's bipartisan healthcare summit this month, they have laid out principles and alternatives that provide a road map to what a Republican healthcare bill would look like if they had the power to decide the outcome. The Republicans have a set of ideas intended to make health insurance more widely available and affordable, by emphasizing tax incentives and state innovations, with no new federal mandates and only a modest expansion of the federal safety net, the New York Times reports.

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