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Health Innovators Chart Path to Lower Health Costs

May 15, 2012

Two private sector innovators took their successful approaches for reducing health costs and improving care to Capitol Hill in a National Coalition on Health Care Forum. The event featured presentations from Tom Leyden of Blue-Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) and Larry Boress of the Midwest Business Group on Health. Leyden has spearheaded collaborative quality improvement efforts, and Boress has worked with employers to curb the financial and human costs of diabetes. The event was the second in an ongoing series of National Coalition on Health Care Forums on Capitol Hill designed to stimulate dialogue around key health care issues.

Cutting the Prevention Fund Now Could Cost Taxpayers Later

May 8, 2012

In the wake of today’s Senate cloture vote on S.2343, we urge both Houses of Congress to address this and other budgetary matters without imposing cuts to prevention programs which will cost taxpayers more in the future.

Medical Organizations Come Together to Reduce Waste

April 4, 2012

“The leadership shown by the various medical organizations behind Choosing Wisely represents a turning point in the effort to address waste in our health care system. For the first time, the
medical profession is recommending procedures that should not be performed. It's a welcome step forward in making care more affordable and improving quality.

MedPAC Advances Promising Medicare Reform Proposals

March 15, 2012

MedPAC’s report today included four particularly promising ideas to curb health costs and improve quality. These recommendations offer Congress an important opportunity to rein in costs for both Medicare and consumers and businesses in the private market.

The President’s Budget: Small Scale Proposals for a Large Scale Problem

February 13, 2012

President Obama’s 2013 budget proposal, released today, acknowledges some important challenges in our health system, but falls short of the kind of significant, lasting changes that will reduce the growth of health costs while maintaining Medicare and Medicaid’s vital protections and ensure a system that is affordable, sustainable, and fair, now and for future generations.

NCHC Urges Congress to Curb System-Wide Health Costs the Right Way Following Supercommittee Collapse

November 29, 2011

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.

ACOs – A First Step Towards A Value-Based Payment System

October 20, 2011

“Initiatives like accountable care organizations (ACOs) are absolutely necessary if America’s health system is going to move past the fragmented approach that inflates costs and shortchanges quality. The improved financial incentives encourage providers to better coordinate care and reduce waste...

MedPAC Tackles Provider Payment Reform; Will Congress Do the Same?

October 6, 2011

“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...

National Coalition on Health Care Issues Cost-Saving Proposals Following News of Rate Increases

September 29, 2011

The National Coalition on Health Care publicly issued a set of recommendations intended to curb health costs for consumers and businesses as well as government. The proposals’ release comes just two days after a new study reported a nine percent jump in the cost of employer-sponsored health insurance this year.

John Rother Takes Helm at the National Coalition on Health Care

September 8, 2011

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.

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