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Published at www.nejm.org June 10, 2009 (10.1056/NEJMp0904855)

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No hurdle facing health care reform in the United States today is more daunting than the problem of financing universal coverage. There is an inescapable logic of reform that lies behind the search for financing sources. First, moving to universal coverage is now widely acknowledged to require a mandate that individuals carry insurance coverage. Second, such a requirement is unacceptable without subsidies to make health insurance affordable for lower-income people. Third, these subsidies will require new financing on the order of $1 trillion or more over the next decade. How can the government finance such a sizeable new expenditure?

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From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

This article (10.1056/NEJMp0904855) was published on June 10, 2009, at NEJM.org.

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