What is Health Care Reform?

What is health care reform? The President, Congress, insurance companies, providers, and health care consumers like you are all talking about it. But the simple answer to "what is health care reform" is, well, there's no simple answer. But whatever the answer is, it's likely to have a profound effect on many Americans.

Explaining Health Care Reform

We'd like to tell you there's a simple way to explain health care reform, but there isn't. Our health care system has a lot of parts.

And it has evolved over generations, along with technology, science and expectations. Consequently, our "health care system" isn't really a system, but a patchwork of government and private payers and providers, full of gaps and holes. That's why a lot of people say it's "broken."

As Mike McCallister, CEO of Humana, a national health benefits provider, says, "If health care is to avoid a cataclysmic event, we have to find a different path and a different way."

A Crossroads in Health Care Reform

We're at a crossroads in health care reform. Following are several different areas of health reform for you to consider:

• What are the Issues in Health Care Reform?
• Background to Health Care Reform
• Glossary of health reform terms

How you can become involved:

• Visit www.healthreform.gov to learn more about President Obama's position on comprehensive health reform.
• Visit www.myhealthreform.org to send an e-mail to your Congressional representative about health care reform and sign up for free legislative updates.

What are the Issues in Health Care Reform?

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