Federation of American Hospitals' Healthcare Reform Proposal: Health Coverage Passport
The Federation of American Hospitals' Health Coverage Passport plan makes it possible for all Americans to get the coverage they need by:
- Requiring every American to have health insurance or face a tax penalty
- Expanding Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program to cover all low-income uninsured.
- For lower-income individuals and families, HCPs covers the full cost of employer-based premiums. For those unable to get employer-based coverage, HCPs cover the full cost of premiums for comprehensive insurance purchased in a reformed individual insurance market.
- Providing sliding-scales subsidies to help moderate-income families buy insurance
- Providing new tax deductions for higher-income individuals who purchase private insurance
- Reforming the individual insurance market
Source: Modern Healthcare (March 2007)
To learn more, please visit http://www.fah.org/passport/
This page was last updated on 4/17/2007
