"Emphasizes the importance of universal health care and looks at alternatives for achieving universal health care … coverage that also improves efficiency in the health care industry and provides proposals to improve the effectiveness and … affordability of health care, including income-related cost-sharing, expanding preventive care, and reforming Medicare …

"Examines the role that taxes currently play, the likely effects of recently introduced health savings accounts, the … challenges of administering major subsidies for health insurance through the tax system, and options for using the tax system to … expand health insurance coverage"--Provided by publisher …