Perspective--the need for public deliberation: giving the public a voice on affordable health insurance.

摘要

Affordability is a key consideration in debates about the mandate for Americans to buy health insurance as required by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Yet no universally agreed-upon standard exists for determining what constitutes affordable health insurance. The question, then, is how best to make decisions about what is affordable. The articles in this issue by Peter Muennig, Bhaven Sampat, Nicholas Tilipman, Lawrence D. Brown, and Sherry A. Glied and by Carole Roan Gresenz, Miriam J. Laugesen, Ambeshie Yesus, and Jose J. Escarce both present thoughtful and useful ways to make decisions about affordability standards.