How We Can Pay for Health Care Reform

July 28, 2009 Paying for health care can be a burden on families and financing a health care reform is a greater burden. This article, by Robert A. Berenson, John Holahan, Linda J. Blumberg, Randall R. Bovbjerg, Timothy Waidmann, Allison Cook, and Aimee Williams argue realistic and cost effective approaches to a health care reform that would broadly distribute costs and not have a huge burden on one population. These ideas include reducing payments to Medicaid and Medicare, provide public insurance plan option in the health insurance exchange, and reevaluate the set of delivery system reforms. Download the Report . . .