Before President Obama was even elected, Utah studied this issue and decided to take a market-based, business-friendly approach to health system reform.
That the U.S. health system needed reform was never in doubt.
We must act now to change the debate from health care reform to health system invention.
But we believe very strongly that our health care system needed reform to produce -- to increase the access that Americans have to health care -- affordable health care, to deal with the skyrocketing costs, and to address the deficits that health care spending has added to.
We are closer to a health care reform system that works for all Americans than we have ever been.
Indeed, by adding tens of millions of people to an unreformed and unsustainably expensive health system, this reform makes it all the more urgent to tackle the question of cost.
With approximately 30 million additional people entering the mainstream healthcare system with health care reform (from the Affordable Care Act), time with patients will likely become even more limited.
And when you think back to the health care debate, despite calls for a single-payer, government-run health care plan, we passed reform that maintains our system of private health insurance.
One of the most powerful findings of this research is that a compelling personal story helps tremendously to make the health care reform law real, break down resistance, tap into anger about how things were under the old system, provide hope for how health care reform can make it better, and help voters retain knowledge of key provisions.
Do you think simpler language is one of the ways to reform our health care system?
We must reform the health care system to make it responsive to the needs of American families.
We know the American people want us to reform our health insurance system.
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Next week is our chance to finally reform our health insurance system so it works for families and small businesses.
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But the only way we achieve that is if we reform the health care system to slow health care inflation.
Director of the Royal College of Nursing NI Janice Smyth said fundamental reform of the health system in Northern Ireland was needed.
According to this report, the steps we took this year to reform the health care system have put Medicare on a sounder financial footing.
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That's why it is so critically important that we finally reform our health care system that is causing so much heartache for so many people affected by this disease.
Liberal Democrats call the public option the only way to truly reform the health care system by ensuring people have access to affordable coverage and providing low-cost competition to private insurers.
And my message to them was: Now is the time to reform the health care system -- not four years from now, not eight years from now, not 20 years from now.
We may disagree about the best way to reform our health care system, but surely we can agree that no one ought to go broke when they get sick in the richest nation on Earth.
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You're exactly right that if we are going to reform our health care system, what we can't do is simply add more people to a hugely inefficient system that is costing us more and more each and every year -- because eventually it will bankrupt families, it will bankrupt state governments and it will bankrupt the country.
They represent the most significant reform of our health care system since the passage of Medicare.
With the bill I signed last week, we finally undertook meaningful reform of our health care system.
These tax subsidies are also likely to be an issue when the new Congress and President-elect Barack Obama tackle reform of the health care system.
Who says we need to reform our private health insurance system?
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We will also keep working towards the reform of a health insurance system whose costs and discriminatory practices are bankrupting our families, our businesses, and our government.
The point of health reform was to improve the system.
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The answer is simple: For two or three generations, Republicans have defeated progressive reform of the health care system by hinting that it would mean redistributing wealth from whites to blacks.
So this is why any reform of the health care system I think has to address this issue, and to say we are going to allow anybody to get health insurance.
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