Healthcare reform continues to bedevil pundits and practitioners

October 2, 2008 Diagnostic Imaging. Healthcare reform continues to bedevil pundits and practitioners James Brice ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As the reporter for this month's cover story, I approached the topic of healthcare reform with trepidation. The article was researched and written in July and August—a sliver of time that seemed possibly too early to perform a relevant analysis. Now in my 17th year with Diagnostic Imaging, I witnessed the last great reform debate. That experience taught me how unpredictable the process can be. In 1993, no one anticipated that the complex universal healthcare plan supported by Bill and Hillary Clinton would fail totally. Few could see then that Republican minority leader Newt Gingrich would leverage public frustration about the plan into his "Contract with America" to wrest control of the Congress in the 1994 election.

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