title: How ready are we for reform? Without a shared vision, getting there will be difficult.
abstract: Providers, policy-makers and other stakeholders from across the political spectrum hope to harness election-year attention about the need for change into a true national discussion that yields a vision of what the American health care system should be and what strategies we need to take to make that vision a reality.
authors.forename: Terese Hudson
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Thrall
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D018166:Health Care Reform; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D011057:Politics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012922:Social Change; D014481:United States; D019472:Universal Health Insurance