Gregg's 5 points on health care

The Portsmourh Herald praises Sen. Judd Gregg and his contribution to the health care debate with this week's events in Salem and Portsmouth.

Gregg's work in the Senate has focused on four areas: prevention, a better structure for managing the chronic ailments that drive up costs, tort reform and a shift from paying for procedures to paying for the quality of outcomes. He has been part of the health care debate from the start. But regardless of his "Rx" versus the House and competing Senate bills, he made five important points for all of us to bear in mind as the five bills out of House and Senate committees are reconciled later this year.