"Emphasizes the importance of universal health care and looks at alternatives for achieving universal health care … coverage that also improves efficiency in the health care industry and provides proposals to improve the effectiveness and … affordability of health care, including income-related cost-sharing, expanding preventive care, and reforming Medicare …

, and consumer-directed Medicare, rating each on its political viability as well as ability to promote access to health care …, and consumer-directed Medicare, rating each on its political viability as well as ability to promote access to health care …