Welcome to a health reform proposal that:
- Guarantees coverage for everyone, regardless of health and employment status
- Allows each person complete choice of physician, hospital, and other health care providers
- Empowers health care providers to practice without external government or insurer constraints
- Uses income-based subsidies for equity and access without complex bureaucracy
- Creates incentives to increase quality of care and efficiency in providing services
- Slows the rate of growth in health care costs
My name is Hal Luft. I've spent my adult life trying to understand how the health care system works—and why it doesn't work as well as it could. Over the last four years I developed a proposal that is markedly different from everything else under discussion. I begin with the health care system we have and our American values, Constitution, and politics. The proposal uses incentives and builds on choice; it forces no one to be a loser.
To transform our current dysfunctional system, I describe more appropriate roles for both market incentives and government. This comprehensive proposal enhances coverage and quality and simultaneously reduces cost escalation.
This website will help you access information about the proposal, which I refer to as SecureChoice. I describe the plan in a recently published book and in shorter versions. I am using various forms of outreach to spread the word. SecureChoice is composed of building blocks, some of which can be implemented separately and incrementally. And as the current policy debate heats up, I am offering commentaries on the options under discussion.
SecureChoice grew out of my 35 years in world class academic institutions and listening carefully to patients and physicians. See my credentials and disclosures.
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