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December 2007 — Vol. 85, No. 10

CBIA’s strategy for health care reform

 

During the next legislative session, which convenes Feb. 6, CBIA will urge lawmakers to improve the employer-sponsored health care system and reject efforts to replace it with a government-run, taxpayer-funded system. CBIA’s recommendations will include:

  • Make more health care quality and cost data available to consumers so they can make better-informed medical choices.

  • Advance the development of a secure and fully interoperable health information exchange and electronic medical records system to reduce medical duplication and errors and improve medical outcomes.

  • Promote healthier lifestyles by providing incentives for employer-based wellness and disease-management programs.

  • Make lower-cost health insurance available to consumers by allowing health plans to create more-flexible benefit designs and policies with fewer mandated coverages.

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

  • Reject attempts to mandate health care purchasing pools.

  • Establish a moratorium on new health insurance mandates.

  • Moderate overall health care costs by requiring the state to implement the above initiatives in state employee health plans.

  • Reject any new health care tax.

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