June 23, 2015

Contact:   Kelly Peuquet
                 National Coalition on Health Care
                 kpeuquet@nchc.org
                 202-638-7151, ext. 114

NCHC Submits Bipartisan Chronic Care Policy Reform Recommendations

WASHINGTON, DC –The National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC) put forward a set of detailed, bipartisan policy recommendations to improve chronic care in a letter yesterday to Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Senators Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and Mark Warner (D-VA), who have been appointed to lead the Committee’s chronic care working group. The letter was submitted in response to a call for health care stakeholder input to inform the working group’s efforts.

“Congress should act now to ensure that Medicare policy is aligned with and builds upon what is already working in the private sector, the states and successful federal initiatives,” wrote NCHC President and CEO John Rother in the letter.

You can find the full letter here.

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The National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC), the oldest and most diverse group working to achieve comprehensive health system reform, is a 501(c)(3) organization representing more than 80 participating organizations, including medical societies, businesses, unions, health care providers, faith-based associations, pension and health funds, insurers and groups representing consumers, patients, women, minorities and persons with disabilities. Member organizations collectively represent – as employees, members, or congregants – over 100 million Americans.

Some members of NCHC do not, or cannot, take positions either on specific legislation, strategies or on any policies outside their respective mission areas. However, all that can, do endorse broad policy positions in support of comprehensive health system change.