Gov. Bob Mcdonnell: 7 principles of real health care reform

1. Health care reform should emphasize health
2. Responsibility is best fostered through individual incentives and not an oppressive federal mandate that violates the economic freedoms of Americans
3. Health care reform should enable Medicaid to restore and maintain the economic independence as well as health status of the neediest Americans
4. Health care reform should increase design flexibility in Medicaid and the private insurance market to improve coverage choices
5. Health care reform should align delivery system incentives to improve the value of patient care
6. Health care reform should foster state innovation to improve health care systems
7. Health care reform should address unsustainable spending at the family, state and federal levels to ease the debt burden that threatens our future

Source: Politico
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