America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) has released a new comprehensive health care reform proposal that offers solutions to contain rising health care costs, enhance portability, provide affordable coverage options for small businesses, protect against medical bankruptcy, and more.
Over the summer, AHIP launched a nationwide listening tour to hear directly from the American people their priorities for health care reform. AHIP, representing over 1300 health plans who cover over 200 million Americans, has responded by offering solutions to address the health care concerns that were raised, including the most recent proposal to guarantee coverage for pre-existing conditions in conjunction with an enforceable individual mandate.
The new reform proposal would:
- Ensure universal coverage by guaranteeing coverage for pre-existing conditions, fixing the health care safety net, giving tax credits to working families and enacting an individual coverage requirement;
- Call on the nation to set a goal of reducing the growth in health care costs by 30 percent;
- Enhance portability for people changing or in between jobs;
- Provide more affordable health care options for small businesses; and
- Increase value and improve quality.
Click here to read the full proposal.