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universal coverage
Universal access Health care reform The provision of health care for entire group–including preventive care–eg, vaccines, screening, outpatient visits to a generalist or specialist, hospitalization for basic and catastrophic needs. See Canadian plan, Clinton plan, Socialized medicine. Cf Underinsured, Uninsured.


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Survey data stretching back decades indicate that most Americans want no citizen left uninsured, but the bipartisan-majority opinion favoring universal coverage has never dominated health-care reform debates.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Kennedy proposal for universal coverage would have cost nearly $1 trillion over the next decade, or $62,500 for each of the 16 million newly insured.
Among his topics are why health care costs are going up, the perfect system, the need for universal coverage, risk sharing, health as the highest priority, and setting goals to reduce costs directly.
 
 
 
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