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Dems Get Boost from Another Republican
Backing Health Reform: Former Bush Medicare Chief
Key leader in Bush effort for Medicare drug program,
former CMS chief Scully, joins growing list of GOP speaking up for
health refrom
 Oct.
9, 2009 - Former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services chief Thomas
Scully is the latest Republican to throw his support behind health care
reform.
Politics Daily: "'Health reform in general is way overdue and we
ought to do it,' Scully told (Politics Daily's Jill Lawrence) in an
interview. He supports the approach taken by the Senate Finance
Committee, chaired by Montana Democrat Max Baucus. If the bill produced
by that committee became law, Scully said, 'the world would be a better
place.'"
 Scully,
chief of CMS under President George W. Bush, joins former senators Bob
Dole, Howard Baker and Bill Frist as other Republicans who have also
come out for health reform in principle. (See related
Kaiser Health News report.)
Another former CMS chief, Mark McClellan, and
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined former HHS Secretaries Tommy
Thompson and Louis Sullivan as well as New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg in their support for reform recently.
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"Scully opposes the creation of a new
government-run insurance plan to compete with private policies. In a
perfect world, he'd like to see Congress first pass insurance reforms,
such as a ban on denying coverage to people with pre-existing
conditions, and phase in a requirement that almost all Americans buy
insurance ... and he wishes the whole project were not happening at a
time of such high deficits.
All that said, Scully added, 'I am a fan of health
reform. I think we ought to do it. And I think Senator Baucus's bill is
a pretty reasonable package.'" (Lawrence, 10/9).
About Thomas
Scully
Thomas A. Scully, the Administrator of the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from 2001-2003 under President
George W. Bush, played a key role in passage of the Medicare
Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act. Scully's role in
the passage of this legislation is considered by many as his most
notable achievement while at CMS.
Scully currently is Senior Counsel at Alston & Bird
LLP, a law and lobbying firm, where he focuses on health care regulatory
and legislative matters, as well as on advising clients on health policy
and strategies for health care delivery. Scully is also a general
partner at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a private equity investment
firm, where he focuses on health care investments.
In 1988, Scully joined the presidential campaign of
President George H. W. Bush. Following that, he worked at the White
House as Deputy Assistant to the President and Counselor to the Director
of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 1992-1993; and as
Associate Director of OMB for Human Resources, Veterans and Labor from
1989-1992.
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