The Hill (12/18, Young) reports, "Votes on legislation to enact comprehensive national health reform might have to wait until early 2010, the Democratic chairman of a powerful House subcommittee said Wednesday."
Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA), chair of the Ways and Means Committee's health subcommittee, noted that because "lawmakers have too many pressing priorities on the economy and other smaller-scale healthcare issues," lawmakers are "likely to take a slower approach to healthcare reform." He added that he doubts "Congress could be ready to vote" within "the first 100 days." Rather, Rep. Stark claimed that lawmakers may be prepared "by the end of 2009 or the beginning of 2010."
Meanwhile, President-elect Barack Obama "has not laid out a timetable but has repeatedly emphasized that the ongoing recession will not prevent him from kick-starting his effort to overhaul the healthcare system." In addition, "key senators" are already "drafting the legislation that will form the basis of the upper chamber's health reform efforts."
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