health reform
Fixing care systems
Health reform refers to efforts to change a nation's healthcare system, typically to expand access, reduce costs, or improve quality.
The term is most common in American political discourse, where debates over insurance coverage, government involvement, and medical costs have persisted for decades: The administration made health reform its top priority.
Health reform can mean anything from incremental policy adjustments to wholesale restructuring of how care is delivered and paid for.
- Affordable Care ActUS healthcare reform law
- out-of-pocket costsExpenses you pay yourself
- drug pricesCost of pharmaceuticals
- single-payer systemSole public health insurer
- universal healthcareGuaranteed medical access nationwide
healthcare subsidies · telemedicine · coverage gap · patient-centered care · filibuster · lobbying · town hall meeting · partisan gridlock · waiting · clipboard · nurse · vaccination campaigns · advocacy · chart · pen · hospitals · Medicare · uninsured
- reformreformer, reformist, democratic reforms, structural change, overhaul
- American Reformsabolitionism, women's suffrage, women's rights, temperance, labor movement
- reformsderegulation, privatising, labor laws, labor reforms, liberalization
- New South AfricaNelson Mandela, Mandela, rainbow nation, African National Congress, new constitution
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, clinic
- gymnasticsgymnastics, balance beam, floor exercise, handstand, parallel bars
health reformstatus quo
Existing condition of affairs
inaction · no change · standing pat · gridlock · incrementalism
health reformrepeal
Annul a statute
healthcare cuts · neglect · deregulation · healthcare privatization · healthcare rationing