23.1: Health Care System
Fix the Nation's Health Care System Other Information:
More than 19 million women are uninsured in this country, and women are more likely than men to delay or not get medical care
because of high costs. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are committed to ensuring that all Americans have health care coverage by
the end of their first term in office. The Obama-Biden plan will encourage insurers and providers to adopt electronic claims
systems, electronic medical records, and patient safety reporting systems. These improvements will reduce administrative costs
and health care inefficiencies such as duplicative testing and medical errors, which in turn will reduce costly medical malpractice
lawsuits. These common sense steps will cut overall health care costs by up to 10 percent or more.
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