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. Consumer Health Care Tools
Discover how consumer health care tools are empowering consumers to make informed and responsible health care decisions.

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

4. 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.

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

7. Health Savings Accounts
Learn more about the health savings accounts (HSAs), among the newest, most innovative features of consumer-directed health plans.

8. Quality: Pay for Performance
Learn more about the ongoing health care quality challenge, and Aetna’s national pay-for-performance framework, which incorporates recognized measures for quality and efficiency from leading nonprofit medical organizations and business groups.

9. The Uninsured: College Students
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.

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