CBIA’s 2007
Government Affairs Program
Health care costs
Goal
Develop a comprehensive plan to control health care costs and expand access to quality, employer-based, health benefit coverage.
Recommendations
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 mandates.
- Establishing a moratorium on new health 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.
