Health Care Reform Support Group

Health care reform is a key issue affecting the lives of a great number of members. This community is a place to communicate ideas, problems, solutions, and experiences with health care.

Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major policy creation or changes --for the most part, governmental policy --that affects healthcare delivery in a given place. Health care reform typically attempts to:

* Broaden the population covered by private or public health insurance
* Expand the array of health care providers consumers may choose among
* Improve the access to health care specialists
* Improve the quality of health care
* Decrease the cost of health care
* Decrease the cost of health insurance