Health Reform Comparison Tool Now Reflects Current House Tri-Committee Legislation

The Kaiser Family Foundation's interactive side-by-side health reform comparison tool now includes details from H.R 3200, the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, introduced this week jointly by the three key House committees with responsibilities for health reform. The online tool allows users to compare any or all of 11 different plans, including proposals from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee; the Senate Finance Committee; Senators Tom Coburn and Richard Burr and Representatives Paul Ryan and Devin Nunes; Representative John Conyers; Representative John Dingell; Senator Bernie Sanders; Representative Pete Stark; and Senators Ron Wyden and Bob Bennett. The tool also includes a summary of President Obama's reform principles, and a proposal from three former Senate Majority Leaders. Users can choose which proposals to compare, as well as specific characteristics about those proposals, including coverage, cost containment and financing. The tool also allows users to print out the comparison of all the plans together. The Foundation will continue to update the tool to reflect major new proposals and any significant changes to the plans already introduced. The comparison tool is a featured resource on the Foundation's health reform gateway page, which provides a centralized source for key information, news and analysis about national health reform efforts now being considered by Congress. The gateway also includes briefs explaining important health reform concepts, the Foundation's original policy research on health care coverage and the uninsured, Kaiser's polling data on health reform, columns from Kaiser president Drew Altman, and relevant news summaries produced by Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent health policy news service established by the Foundation.