Chapter[ Executive Summary
Section[ Introduction
The American Health Choices Plan:
Ensuring Quality, Affordable Health Care for All Americans
Executive Summary
Hillary Clinton has unveiled the third part of her plan to ensure that all Americans have affordable,
quality health insurance. Building on her proposals to rein in costs and to insist on value and quality,
her American Health Choices Plan will secure, simplify and ensure choice in health coverage for all
Americans. This Plan covers every American – finally addressing the needs of the 47 million uninsured
and the tens of millions of workers with coverage who fear they could be one pink slip away from
losing their health coverage – with no overall increase in health spending or taxes. For those with
health insurance, the plan builds on the current system to give businesses and their employees greater
choice of health plans – including keeping the one they have – while lowering cost and improving
quality. Specifically, the American Health Choices Plan will: