A Reality Check on Health Reform

We’ve launched a series of fact sheets called Moving Forward with Health Reform to help people (especially non-wonks) understand how the new health reform law will work — and whether the claims from opponents are true. The latest piece in the series, “How Health Reform Helps Reduce the Deficit,” walks through the law’s spending reductions and revenue increases, which will cover the cost of extending coverage to over 30 million uninsured Americans. We hope you’ll find it useful to read and share, along with other pieces in the series that explain:

• why health reform is a good deal for the states,
• why an individual mandate is necessary for the law’s key health insurance market reforms to work,
• the law’s voluntary new long-term health care insurance program, and
• how health reform will affect employers.