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The Nuts and Bolts of Reform Proposals
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Covering the Uninsured.
This may be health-care reform's biggest question: how to provide coverage to the estimated 46 million Americans who are uninsured. Answers here seem especially elusive. It's virtually certain that employer-provided insurance would remain. Obama has proposed that it could be supplemented by a federal "health insurance exchange" -- a kind of large pool that individuals could use to comparison shop for health insurance.
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Changes to Medicare reimbursement.
Not for the first time, proponents of health-care reform are advocating streamlining the unwieldy Medicare reimbursement system, making sure doctors and institutions aren't overpaid for care, instituting a competitive payment system, curbing abuse, and keeping increases in reimbursements in line with economic gains.
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Last updated 6/22/2009
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SOURCES: Thomas R. Oliver, Ph.D., associate professor, population health sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and associate director, health policy, University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, Madison; Linda Fentiman, professor, law, Pace Law School, New York City; Mary Mundinger, Dr.PH, dean, Columbia University School of Nursing, New York City; Nancy W. Dickey, M.D., president, Texas A&M Health Science Center and vice chancellor, health affairs, Texas A&M System; White House Office of Management and Budget fact sheet
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