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Federal or state health coverage mandates should expand insurance coverage and reduce health insurance costs across broad populations.
Any reforms that expand private coverage must ensure that affordable and adequate coverage is accessible to all individuals targeted by the expansion, regardless of health or age.
Tax policies relating to health coverage, health savings, and health spending should be evaluated in the context of fiscal and health policy.
Sources of financing for health care reform should be broad-based, stable, capable of growing with enrollment, progressive, and consistent with furthering public-health objectives.
All consumers should receive coverage and care that is at least as good as that required for policies offered through health care exchanges.
Federal and state policymakers should enact health care reform that achieves universal access to health care coverage and provides adequate protection against health care costs.
Policymakers should explore reinsurance, risk adjustment, or similar mechanisms to spread insurance risk more broadly.
Policymakers should ensure that state and federal health insurance marketplaces maintain an accessible application-and-enrollment system and infrastructure.
Policymakers should support EHB requirements under the Affordable Care Act. They should ensure that consumers who purchase individual and small-group health plans have comprehensive coverage.