NCHC — National Coalition On Health Care

Experts Make a Business Case for Pursuing Medication Adherence Initiatives

The National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC) convened a Capitol Hill Forum today featuring experts on initiatives to increase medication adherence —an area for improving health outcomes and lowering costs that the event’s organizers believe has been underexplored by both policymakers and purchasers of health care. Despite its benefits, proper adherence to prescribed medication regimens,… [Continue Reading]
NCHC Joins Diverse Effort to Curb Health Care Spending While Improving Quality

Washington, D.C.—NCHC joined four other organizations representing diverse constituencies involved in the nation’s health care to present five consensus recommendations today for improving health care quality while lowering costs nationwide. Calling itself the Partnership for Sustainable Health Care, the group includes nationally prominent advocates for employers, insurers, consumers, health care providers and others. Participants include… [Continue Reading]
Key Measures to Curb Health Costs Included in Budget Deal

“Sandwiched between the hotly debated tax provisions and an urgently needed fix to Medicare’s physician pay, negotiators have tucked three underappreciated, but important, steps toward lower health care costs in today’s budget bill. First, the law establishes a new bipartisan commission appointed by the President and Congress to grapple with the challenge of providing affordable,… [Continue Reading]
Capitol Hill Forum Inserts Sugary Drinks and Tax Policy into Budget Debate

Health care stakeholders, nutrition advocates and budget experts highlighted the role that sugary drinks play in our nation’s rising health care costs and explored proposals to tax those beverages at a Capitol Hill forum today. According to one of the featured panelists, Dr. Michael Jacobson, Executive Director of CSPI, “Taxing soda could be an economic windfall… [Continue Reading]
New Massachussetts, California Initiatives Could Help Curb Costs Nationwide

July 16, 2012 At a National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC) Forum held on Capitol Hill today, Harvard economist David Cutler and William Kramer, an executive with Pacific Business Group on Health, briefed Washington stakeholders and policy-makers on the latest thinking about how to curb costs while expanding coverage from state level reformers in Massachusetts… [Continue Reading]
Regardless of Supreme Court Decision, the Problem of Cost Isn’t Going Away

June 22, 2012 Efforts to curb health costs must take their place at the top of the national agenda, no matter how the Supreme Court rules next week. The Supreme Court could make our health cost problems worse if its ruling slows cost control efforts already underway or swells the rank of uninsured Americans. Even… [Continue Reading]