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==Health Policy==
===Making Health Care Affordable===
*Encourage states to adopt comprehensive payment reform and consider options like hospital global budgeting, patient-centered medical homes, and accountable care organizations
*Improve the value of Medicare
**Launch a "Medicare Essential" program to provide comprehensive benefits (hospital, physician, prescription drug, supplemental coverage) in one opt-in plan
*Increase support for primary care and promote widespread adoption of medical homes
*Require clarity in healthcare billing and fairness for the uninsured
*Enforce anti-trust law to counter dramatic price increases
*Fight against corporate tax inversions
*Ban price gouging for prescription drugs
*Use the government's purchasing power to ensure reasonable drug prices
*Invest in health information exchanges
*Expand patients' access to their own health data
*Prioritize data security in the transition to electronic medical records
===Expanded Access to Quality Care===
*Build on the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
**Ensure access to affordable healthcare for immigrants
**Work with states to close the "coverage gap"
**Extend access for working families and their children
**Treat multi-employer and high-cost plans fairly
**Address high deductibles by covering critical services
*Support universal access to reproductive care
**Promote universal access to prenatal care and family planning
*Set a goal for universal access to primary, behavioral, and oral health care, supported by renewed investment in community health centers
*Eradicate lead poisoning by restoring funding for state programs and creating an interagency task force to find solutions to keep children healthy
*Reduce diseases and premature deaths caused by air pollution
*Mobilize communities to address the cause of health disparities
*Expand the National Health Service Corps and Area Health Education Centers and invest in the next generation of the health care workforce
*Task the Department of Health and Human Services with developing the basis for states, health systems, and health care providers for progress in health equity
===Cures and Healthier Lives===
*Invest in NIH and FDA research
*Support promising therapies at every step of development
*Release clinical trial data to advance scientific discovery
*Invest in early childhood health
**Provide stable funding for the ACA's Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program
*Build on the ACA
**Protect the Prevention and Public Health Fund
*Renew focus on preventing and treating infectious diseases
**Set goals for disease prevalence for diseases like HIV, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis
*Reauthorize and fully fund the Older Americans Act
*Require Medicare and Medicaid programs to create a consistent set of incentives to encourage community-based care
*Encourage physicians to speak with their patients regarding end of life care and support the implementation of patient wishes
==Drug Policy==
