Why Americans Should Beware Health Reform 'Triggers'

Publication Date: May 1994

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Stuart M. Butler

Research Area: Government; Health

Keywords: Health care

Type: Brief

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

All new programs should have explicit objectives to be achieved within a certain timetable, and a future Congress should be legally obligated to reassess the program at a later date and scrap it, modify it, or replace it if the legislation has not worked.