FYI: Side-by-Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals

Achieving comprehensive health reform has emerged as a leading priority of the President and Congress. President Obama has outlined eight principles for health reform, seeking to address not only the 45 million people who lack health insurance, but also rising health care costs and lack of quality. In Congress, a number of comprehensive reform proposals have been announced as the debate proceeds over how to overhaul the health care system. This interactive side-by-side compares the leading comprehensive reform proposals across a number of key characteristics and plan components. Included in this side-by-side are proposals for moving toward universal coverage that have been put forward by the President and Members of Congress. In an effort to capture the most important proposals, we have included those that have been formally introduced as legislation as well as those that have been offered as draft proposals or as policy options. This side-by-side offers a summary of the major components of these proposals; detailed descriptions of provisions relating to the Medicare and Medicaid programs can be found online. It will be regularly updated to reflect changes in the proposals and to incorporate major new proposals as they are announced. Link The link is to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan foundation that studies health care reform. Once there you have options of generating your own PDF comparison or selecting between the two Congressional authorizing committee proposals or a side-by-side comparison of all proposals and topic. All are in a printable PDF format. Also, there are links, within the introduction, that will take you to the detailed descriptions of provisions relating to Medicare and Medicad programs.

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