As President Barack Obama's Thursday health reform summit approaches, four analysts weigh in on whether a bipartisan reform bill is possible in the current political climate and what such a bill might include.

By Lea Winerman

PBS Newshour

Feb. 22, 2010

Is bipartisan cooperation on health care reform possible? If so, what would it look like?

"What's that? This all sounds very familiar? That's because it's a pretty accurate description of the plans that the House and Senate passed last year and that President Obama endorsed. It's also similar to the proposal drafted, and then endorsed, by four former Senate majority leaders -- two of them Republicans -- through the Bipartisan Policy Center. If it's good enough for Howard Baker and Bob Dole, surely it's good enough for at least a few of today's Republicans."

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Leaders' Project on the State of American Health Care