Health Care Policy
The National Business Group on Health's public policy activities provide members with the latest information and analysis of federal legislative and regulatory developments in health care that impact employers. As the national voice of large employers, the Business Group also educates and informs policy makers about the perspectives and practices of large employers on key heath care issues.
The Imperative for Health Reform: The Position of the National Business Group on Health
Key Public Policy Objectives
- Actively Promote Patient Safety and Evidence-Based Medical Practice
- Encourage Delivery System Innovations that Enhance the Effectiveness of Health Care
- Improve Employee Health and Productivity
- Promote Consumer Choice and Decision-Making
- Increase Transparency of Health Care Information
- Reduce Health Care Costs and Increase the Affordability of Health Benefits
- Preserve and Strengthen ERISA
- Promote Flexibility in Health Benefits Design
- Reduce the Cost and Complexity of Health Benefits Administration
- Maintain Favorable Tax Treatment for Health Benefits
Public Policy Priority Issues 2009
- Expand access to affordable, effective, quality health care and coverage
- Counter employer coverage mandates
- Protect ERISA preemption of state law
- Maintain favorable tax treatment of employer-sponsored coverage
- Advance health information technology (HIT)
- Support comparative effectiveness research of new and existing health care interventions
- Promote pay-for-performance through Medicare payment reform
- Promote patient safety
- Support primary care, including medical home model
- Promote health care price and quality transparency
- Support Medicare Advantage
- Support FDA approval process for generic biologics
- Maintain the usefulness and flexibility of health accounts
- Maintain Family and Medical Leave Act improvements
- Oppose mandated paid sick leave
Index of Health Policy Priority Issues
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