It's About Access to Health Care, Not Universal Coverage

    ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Policymakers at both
 the state and federal levels are increasingly focusing on the uninsured and
 proposals that promise to achieve "universal coverage," in which everyone
 has comprehensive health insurance coverage. In this rush to provide
 everyone with coverage, they have forgotten the underlying goal --
 providing everyone with access to health care.
     Today, the Council for Affordable Health Insurance released its new
 Issues & Answers "It's About Access to Health Care, Not Universal
 Coverage."
     Full text is available at
 http://www.cahi.org/cahi_contents/resources/pdf/n140UniversalAccessPDF.pdf.
     Founded in 1992, CAHI is a non-profit research and advocacy association
 whose mission is to develop and promote free market solutions to America's
 health care challenges. CAHI's membership includes health insurance
 companies (active in the individual, small group, HSA and senior markets),
 small businesses, physicians, actuaries and insurance brokers.
 
 

SOURCE Council for Affordable Health Insurance