Senator Edwards Health Plan

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Senator Edwards Health Plan

• Individual mandate
• Shared responsibility
• Employers provide coverage to workers or pay 6
  of wages into pool
• Medicaid/SCHIP expansions
• Parents and children up to 250 of poverty
• Childless adults up to 100 of poverty
• Sliding scale premium subsidies (refundable tax
  credits)
• Regional Markets insurance pools of competing
  private plans and a public plan like Medicare
• Quality and Efficiency Reforms
• Insurance market guaranteed issue and community
  rating
• Coverage of preventive care and chronic care with
  minimal cost-sharing
• Pay for results reward quality and efficiency
• Transparency public reporting
• Patient safety FDA device and drug safety
• Quality benchmarks
• Evidence-based medicine health services research
• Revenues
• Repeal of tax cuts for those over 200,000
• Enforcement of capital gains tax

Source The Commonwealth Fund.