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The Supercommittee may have failed, yet we have no choice but to see that failure as an opportunity for Congress as a whole to start facing up to our nation’s challenges, including the need to tame health costs the right way.

“MedPAC has produced an honest attempt to cut the Gordian knot of federal health policy and ending the SGR.  Whether or not MedPAC’s shared sacrifice approach is the right one, at least MedPAC has gotten serious about addressing provider payment. It is long past time that our elected leaders do the same...

WASHINGTON, DC- The National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC) announced the appointment of John Rother as its new President and Chief Executive Officer today.

Mr. Rother brings 30 years of health policy experience at AARP and the US Senate to NCHC, the oldest and most broadly representative, non-partisan alliance working for health system change.

“There is no greater domestic challenge than taming the escalating cost of health care.  NCHC is poised to tackle that challenge,” stated Rother.

Rother, a long-time member of NCHC’s Board of Directors, will now lead a coalition that brings together many of the nation’s leading and influential stakeholders – employers, unions, insurers, providers, and consumers -  around the common goals of keeping health care affordable, protecting vulnerable populations, and improving value.

 Congress has acted to avoid immediate fiscal catastrophe, but the hard and most important work is far from over.  Dramatically rising health system costs remain the greatest threat to our nation’s future economic security.