Medical Liability System
Current Environment and Recommendations for Change
American health care is the envy of the world, but with rapidly rising health care costs, reforms are needed to make high-quality, affordable health care more widely available. These include new approaches to making employer-provided coverage more affordable, new initiatives to help States expand Medicaid and S-CHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program) coverage for lower-income persons, and new policies, including health insurance credits for persons who do not have access to employer or public health insurance. A critical element for enabling all of these reforms to provide real relief, and to help all Americans get access to better and more…