October 27, 2009
Jay Evensen notes that former HHS Sec. Mike Leavitt "has authored an essay for The Ripon Forum on health-care reform. (Read it here.) In it, he wonders whether states can rise up and organize, the way he tried to get them to do 15 years ago. ... Leavitt, as governor of Utah, co-chaired the Conference of the States along with Democratic Gov. Ben Nelson of Nebraska. The idea was to get each state Legislature to vote to send delegates to the conference, which would then decide how to restore the balance between states and Washington that the Founding Fathers had envisioned. ... The whole idea was derailed mainly by the right-wing, oddly enough. ... I remember Leavitt telling me at the time how frustrating this was."
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