Congress has yet another opportunity to help the unemployed andprevent displaced workers from joining or remaining in the ranks ofthe uninsured, but it must do this the right way by reaching out tofamilies who need assistance the most.
Governors and state legislators can make significant headway in reducing the number of America's uninsured, improving access to quality health care, and expanding choice and competition in thestate health insurance markets.
What's the best way to help Americans who lack health insurance because they can't afford it? Some say universal health care is the answer. But there's a far better solution, especially for those wisely skeptical of one-size-fits-all remedies from Washington.
"Our current health-insurance system is broken," Heritagehealth-care expert Nina Owcharenko says, "because the person usinginsurance is almost never in control of it."
President Bush has put forward a series of policy changes, aimed atimproving existing health care accounts, that would enableindividuals and families to control decisions regarding their ownhealth care and decide for themselves how best to spend theirhealth care dollars.