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...never would have considered before - like agreeing to set prices on policies without regard to an individual's health history - in exchange for the access to the vast new market that would come with universal coverage. "Nobody here in our industry is defending or wants the status quo," says Karen Ignagni, who heads the leading insurance lobby group. Perhaps most important, there is more agreement than ever before that for any health-care system to work, everyone - or nearly everyone - has to be covered...
...Germans have also shown how effective it can be to allow physicians to compare their performance against their colleagues. The country has the largest database on hospital performance in the world, which helps spread best practice. Such ideas would prove equally effective in the U.S., according to Karen Davis of the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund, but change needs to come at the policy level. "Right now we can see how successful these programs are in places like Germany and Pennsylvania but then doctors and hospitals come back and ask, 'Who's going to pay for it?'," she says...
...With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, Jay Newton-Small, Michael Scherer, Mark Thompson and Karen Tumulty / Washington...
...With reporting by Jay Newton-Small and Karen Tumulty / Washington...
Pforzheimer House: Roger R. Fu, Kevin M. Jonke, Teresa A. Knickman, Paul Jeffrey R. Leopando, Karen R. Lovely, Jennifer J. Malin, Wangui M. Muigai, Boyce R. Owens, Julia L. Renaud, John M. Sheffield...