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February 2007 — Vol. 85, No. 1

CBIA’s health care reform recommendations

 

The association is urging the state to develop a comprehensive plan to control health care costs and expand access to quality, employer-based health benefit coverage. Specific recommendations are:

  • Control health care costs and expand access to quality care by

    – Making health care quality and cost data more available to consumers, to allow them to make more-informed medical choices;

    – Encouraging the use of electronic medical records to reduce medical duplication and errors and improve medical outcomes;

    – Promoting healthier lifestyles by providing incentives for encouraging employer-based wellness and disease-management programs;

    – Giving consumers greater ability to purchase lower-cost health insurance by allowing health plans to create more-flexible health benefit designs, including variations in co-payments, coinsurance and deductibles, as well as allowing for policies with fewer health coverage mandates; and

    – Establishing a moratorium on new health coverage mandates.

  • Reject the imposition of a new health care tax.

  • Reduce cost shifts from Medicaid to private-sector payers by increasing the state’s reimbursement level for providers’ costs.

For more information, e-mail Eric George, CBIA associate counsel, or call him at 860-244-1900.

 

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