Previous effort to solve America's growing health coverage problems through ad hoc patches to current programs have failed. The haphazard array of narrow categorical programs, cross subsidies and counterincentives had been both extremely unfair and profoundly inefficient. The negative effects on the health and well being of vulnerable uninsured persons, and on the efficiency and viability of health care systems that all Americans rely on, have been well documented by others.
The Institute focuses on identifying and developing workable coverage solutions that coherently build towards the real and sustainable systems reform envisioned in recently enacted federal health reform.
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