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Policymakers should collaborate to identify, develop, fund, and implement timely, effective response plans for national, state, and local public health crises.
Federal and state governments should ensure the collection and public reporting of comprehensive, accurate data during an epidemic or pandemic and other public health crises or natural disasters.&n
Health care providers, businesses, schools, organizations, and individuals should be educated about behavioral risk factors for contracting and spreading serious communicable diseases.
Federal and state policymakers should continue to enact health care reforms that achieve access to health care and provide adequate protection against health care costs.
Federal or state health coverage mandates should expand insurance coverage and reduce health insurance costs across broad populations.
Federal policymakers should require timely, clear notice to people insured through the health insurance marketplace who receive subsidies and are approaching Medicare eligibility.
Proposals to extend Medicare or other federal coverage to older adults who are not yet eligible for Medicare should:
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.