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Ensuring Access to Affordable Health Insurance: A Memo to President-elect Obama
Publication Date: December 2008
Publisher(s): Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Stuart M. Butler; Nina Owcharenko
Special Collection: Presidential Advisory
Topic: Health (Health care planning)
Keywords: Auto-enrollment; Presidential transition; Private coverage
Type: Brief
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
President-elect Obama, during the campaign you pledged to build a health care system in which Americans can be assured of access to affordable health insurance. You guaranteed Americans who already have insurance that nothing would change except that their coverage would be less expensive. You pointed to the health system that Members of Congress have as your model for expanding coverage. And you agreed that choice of doctor and care is a basic principle. These laudable themes struck a chord with Americans