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What Stays, What Goes in Health Reform?
Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, January 28, 2010
On the other hand, these issues may take more time to examine, and could appear later or not at all:
- Determine which health insurance exchanges are needed—state or federal--and who should be included.
- Place a tax on high-cost (so-called "Cadillac") health plans for individuals and families.
- Place a surcharge on individuals with annual higher incomes (above $500,000) or families with higher incomes (above $1 million).
- Expand Medicaid coverage for individual just above the federal level. (The House called for 150% above the level; the Senate suggested 133%.)
- Establish a new trauma center program.
Janice Simmons is a senior editor and Washington, DC, correspondent for HealthLeaders Media Online. She can be reached at jsimmons@healthleadersmedia.com.
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