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Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., Member, Committee on Budget, U.S. House of Representatives
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Jim Cooper (D-TN) has represented Nashville and surrounding areas in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2002, currently serving on the Armed Services, Budget, and Oversight and Government Reform Committees. An attorney, investment banker and Rhodes Scholar, Cooper was first elected at age 28 to represent Tennessee's Fourth Congressional District (1983-95). Today, in addition to serving in Congress, he teaches graduate-level health policy at Vanderbilt University's Owen School of Management. He and his wife Martha have three children.
July 22, 2009 01:38 PM
First, I am flattered to be blogging with the likes of you. Second, I am surprised to read that Henry Aaron may be willing to settle for incremental reform. Appropriately, he suggests that we start with exchanges. I hope that Henry’s pessimism is unwarranted, but we all know how hard comprehensive reform is to pass. Uwe Reinhart seems to be acknowledging what CBO is saying when all the committee bills so far fail to achieve universal coverage, even with their gigantic price tags. It would be sad to miss this opportunity for universal coverage just because we…
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