This led to poor picture quality in bad coverage areas, and many years before the service achieved full national coverage.

"The individual mandate is a mechanism for achieving universal coverage."

The overall objective is to achieve 100% coverage to earn more time and score points.

Mandates are the only realistic way of achieving universal coverage any time soon.

The only rational way to achieve cost control, quality care and coverage for the uninsured is to cover everyone with national health insurance.

But it still is possible to get a bill this fall that would achieve universal coverage.

It first achieved global coverage last year, officials said.

Conversely, a larger sample set is required, and one may not achieve full coverage.

Each of these proposals would achieve universal coverage but none is satisfactory.

Let me point out that here we have another practical issue: how are we to achieve coverage in an economic way?