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

Containing Costs and Avoiding Tax Increases While Improving Quality


Containing Costs and Avoiding Tax Increases While Improving Quality: Affordable Coverage and High Value Care

 
An Insurance Policy for Health Care Reform
Building a Better Health Care System
NCHC's Annual Report
Containing Costs and Avoiding Tax Increases While Improving Quality
An Insurance Policy for Health Care Reform

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

Building a Better Health Care System

NCHC's straight forward plan to fix health care.

NCHC's Annual Report

NCHC's Annual Report

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

Containing Costs and Avoiding Tax Increases While Improving Quality

Containing Costs and Avoiding Tax Increases While Improving Quality

Containing Costs and Avoiding Tax Increases While Improving Quality: Affordable Coverage and High Value Care

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Last year despite the recession, national health care spending hit $2.5 trillion, a 5.7 percent jump from 2008, according to projections by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Increased health spending and decreased GDP combined to increase health care's share of the economy by 1.1 percent – the biggest one-year jump since the government began tracking the numbers in 1960. According to CMS economists writing in the journal, Health Affairs. Health expenditures are estimated to have consumed 17.3 percent of GDP last year. As growing unemployment caused forced  more people to rely on Medicaid, public spending grew to 8.7 percent, or $1.2 trillion. At the same time private payers increases totaling $1.3 trillion, a 3 percent increase.  Health costs now equal 17 percent of the nation’s economy.  READ THE HEALTH AFFAIRS ARTICLE: 

Families USA held  it’s Annual Health Action 2010 Conference in Washington D.C. on January 28-30.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2010 to 2020 (Report).  

 

“We have come further than we have ever come before. While the House and Senate bills differ on specific points, they are built on the same framework and common elements--eliminating health status underwriting and insurance abuses, creating functioning insurance markets, offering affordability credits to those who cannot afford health insurance, requiring that all Americans act responsibly and purchase health insurance if they are able to do so, expanding Medicaid to cover all poor Americans, reforming Medicare payment to encourage quality and control costs, strengthening the primary care workforce, and encouraging prevention and wellness.

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