Side-by-Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals

 Achieving comprehensive health reform has emerged as a leading priority of the President and Congress. President Obama has outlined eight principles for health reform, seeking to address not only the 45 million people who lack health insurance, but also rising health care costs and lack of quality. In Congress, a number of comprehensive reform proposals have been announced as the debate proceeds over how to overhaul the health care system. This interactive side-by-side compares the leading comprehensive reform proposals across a number of key characteristics and plan components. Included in this side-by-side are proposals for moving toward universal coverage that have been put forward by the President and Members of Congress. In an effort to capture the most important proposals, we have included those that have been formally introduced as legislation as well as those that have been offered as draft proposals or as policy options. It will be regularly updated to reflect changes in the proposals and to incorporate major new proposals as they are announced. This side-by-side offers a summary of the major components of these proposals; detailed descriptions of provisions relating to the Medicare and Medicaidprograms can be found online..

Instructions:
1. Select one or more proposals.
2. Select one or more topics. The Generate Comparison button will appear on the right, just above the proposals. Click for results.
3. Your results will appear with the options to Print the Comparison, or Create a Different Comparison.

Information updated 10/6/09

Download a printable version of the three Congressional authorizing committee proposals (.pdf)
Download a printable side-by-side comparison of all proposals and topics (.pdf) 

www.kff.org/healthreform/sidebyside.cfm