Using tax credits and state high-risk pools to expand health insurance coverage

There are practical proposals now on the public policy table to reduce the number of Americans without health coverage. While they won't make health care free or eliminate the forty million uninsured persons, they would help millions of Americans acquire or improve their health insurance. Practical strategies can also be taken to address access issues for unhealthy persons in the nongroup market through federal assistance to states to establish and improve state high-risk health insurance pools, as well as to make health insurance more affordable for low-income Americans.