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Major Health Reform Bills Include Quality Provisions

The major bills include critical provisions that address improving quality and health care system performance.

National Association for Healthcare Quality
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 14:54
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(NAHQ: Glenview, IL) -- As health reform measures make their way through Congress, with the House of Representatives narrowly passing a heath reform bill earlier this month, the issues of universal coverage, cost, and private vs. public delivery have been at the forefront of the discussion. The major bills currently in play have included critical provisions addressing a host of areas, including improving quality and health care system performance.

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Current health care reform measures

There are currently three Congressional vehicles for health care reform:

  1. The House Leadership Bill—The Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962)
  2. The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Bill—Affordable Health Choices Act
  3. The Senate Finance Committee Bill—America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 (S. 1796)

 

With the House narrowly voting to approve the Affordable Health Care for America Act, the measure now moves to the Senate, where support is less certain. The Senate must now pass its own version of the health care bill, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada recently signaled uncertainty over whether that will happen this year.

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