- A description of and clarity on a core set of essential health care benefits available to all, especially primary and preventive care, management of chronic illnesses, and protections from catastrophic health care expenses.
- Covers all people and emphasizes comprehensive and coordinated primary care. Current resources must be allocated differently.
- A Insurance Services health care system approach to the financing, organization, and delivery of health care is designed to achieve affordable health care coverage that involves competition based on quality, cost, and service
- Physician visits, days in the ICU, days in the hospital, and patients seeing 10 or more physicians; and better quality of care (fewer ICU deaths and a higher composite quality score).