It seems clear that change is coming to the U.S. healthcare system. President-elect Barack Obama wants it. Congress wants it. Even the insurance industry says the time is ripe to do things differently.
But not too differently. The idea of doing away with the employer-based insurance system — which has become increasingly unsustainable for businesses and has resulted in 47 million Americans going without coverage — seems to be off the table.
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: The issue brief — written by Debra Draper, a senior fellow at the center, and colleagues — finds that Massachusetts has made “remarkable progress in improving access to health care coverage,” but the absence of additional cost containment efforts could “ultimately prove to be the undoing of Massachusetts’ historic coverage initiative” (HSC release, 10/31).
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: The Kaiser Family Foundation has updated its interactive online resource with Read the rest of this entry »