Our Issues at A Glance briefs can help you better understand important public policy issues and Aetna's position regarding each

1. Consumer-Directed Health Care
Learn why consumer-directed-health care plans represent an innovation marketplace solution to the problem of rising health care costs.

2. Cost of Health Care  (2 pages)
Learn more about the growing problem of rising health care costs and how marketplace solutions can help.

3. Disparities in Health Care
Disparities in health care mean unequal health care access and outcomes for many racial and ethnic minorities. Learn how private and public sectors are working in concert on initiatives to reduce these disparities.

4. Gender and Individually Purchased Health Insurance
Learn more about how using pricing factors, such as gender, for individual health insurance helps to ensure that premiums fairly reflect each individual’s expected costs.

5. Genomics
Genetic medicine is developing quickly, raising many questions and concerns. Find out more about Aetna's response, promoting access to medically appropriate genetic services and pioneering a clinical management program that improves quality and cost effectiveness of medical therapy based on genetic information.

6. Health Information Technology  (2 pages)
Learn why smart investments in health information technology are needed to help improve health care quality.

7. Health Literacy
Learn more about the link between inadequate literacy and poor health, and how helpful, easy-to-understand health information can help.

8. The Uninsured: College Students   (2 pages)
Find out why bringing low-cost, high-quality health care to college students is an important part of addressing the problem of the uninsured nationwide.

9. The Uninsured
Learn how continuous and affordable health coverage can become universal through a combination of private and public sector efforts.