Sen. Biden wants to control costs by modernizing the system, simplifying the system and reducing errors. He wants to see a change to electronic records and a uniform system to submit claims. Biden would expand access to health insurance for children and provide catastrophic coverage to families and businesses. He sees innovative change happening in the states towards universal coverage and wants to use data on what is working there to inform national policy.

Directly from the candidate:

Joe Biden believes that to protect jobs, compete in a global economy and strengthen families we have to have to address out-dated health care system. The next president will have to deal with two challenges: containing the growing costs of health care and providing access to the 47 million Americans who don't have health insurance.