The 15 U.S. Senate co-sponsors of the Healthy Americans Act have sent a letter to President-elect Barack Obama outlining seven principles they believe should serve as the goal of any reform of the nation’s health care system. The bipartisan group of senators stated that healthcare reform should have the following goals:
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Ensuring that all Americans have health care coverage
- Ensuring that health care coverage is affordable and portable
- Implementing strong private insurance market reforms
- Modernizing federal tax rules for health coverage
- Promoting improved disease prevention and wellness activities, and better management of chronic illness
- Making healthcare prices and choices more transparent
- Improving the quality and value of health care services
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