National Coalition on Health Care

State Health Care System Reform

Implementation of national health reform will succeed or fail based upon what happens in all fifty states. California -- which leads the nation in public support for health system reform -- is the initial focus for NCHC’s state specific public education, capacity building and stakeholder collaboration efforts to improve implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

An Insurance Policy for Health Care Reform

NCHC Action Fund President and CEO, Ralph G. Neas, calls for an insurance policy for health care reform.

Building a Better Health Care System

A plan for reform based on NCHC's year of study with roughly eighty of America’s large and small businesses, unions, civil rights and advocacy groups, health care providers, associations of religious congregations, pension and health funds, insurers, and groups representing patients and consumers.

NCHC's Annual Report

Download the National Coalition on Health Care's 2009 Annual Report

State Health Care System Reform

NCHC's web-based state reform resources to help Californians secure and sustain a better health system

An Insurance Policy for Health Care Reform

NCHC Action Fund President and CEO, Ralph G. Neas, calls for an insurance policy for health care reform.

Building a Better Health Care System

NCHC's straight forward plan to fix health care.

NCHC's Annual Report

Download the National Coalition on Health Care's 2009 Annual Report

Latest from NCHC

Insurance Exchanges: The Next Major Health Reform Battleground

In a simple press release from HHS, we find the next major battle brewing in the process of implementing America’s health system reform law – the formation of health insurance exchanges. How these insurance exchanges are formed will have a dramatic effect on the future of America’s health system, and you can help!

ACA to Battle Health Care Fraud

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes many provisions designed to combat the health care fraud, waste, and abuse, that cost Americans billions of dollars annually. Recent analyses suggest that in 2009, Medicare and Medicaid made over $49 billion in "improper payments." Additionally, the National Health Care Antifraud Association estimates that fraud alone accounts for $60 billion of total national health care expenditures.

Penny Wise and Pound Foolish.

Employee benefits administrator Discovery Benefits denied coverage to a woman battling Leukemia over a payment shortage of one penny.

Blog - Atul Gawande Gives the Hospice Movement a Bump

Atul Guwande's latest piece in the New Yorker presents a heartfelt and compelling argument for hospice care. Guwande argues, and from personal experience from my grandfather's stay in Hospice I am inclined to agree with him, that hospice care at the end of life leads to better outcomes and saves untold sums of money.

Reducing Disparities Requires More Than Just a Law

In a report released by the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, Ignatius Bau offers an analysis of the potential benefits of health reform, specifically those related to reducing health care disparities. Bau concludes his analysis by describing the complexities of making these potential benefits a reality.

Blog - Poll Finds Vast Majority of Seniors Can’t Answer Simple Questions About Reform

A new poll shows that seniors are, by and large, confused about health reform and what it means for them. This is bad news for proponents of reform as we head into what could be a very contentious election season.