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2008 Annual Conference Videos Tuesday, September 23, 2008 General Session (8:30 am – 10:30 am)HEALTH CARE REFORM: Election ’08 - The Opportunity of a Lifetime This year’s elections will provide us with the opportunity to advance the objective of comprehensive health care reform for the first time in more than a decade. Whether the structure ultimately adopted includes single payer, changes to the tax structure, or building on the existing employer based system, our job is to ensure that our fundamental elements of reform are reflected in the final product. Although our non-partisan tax status prevents us from taking sides in a political contest, there must be no doubt that the NCCMP will forcefully represent the interests of our plans, participants and sponsors in the development of position papers and specific legislation that reflect these principles.
Many of our funds participate in purchasing coalitions. Can a model that combines the power of all coalitions be even more effective?
The National Coalition for Health Care (NCHC) has successfully made the case for health care reform. Now, thanks in part to a grant from the Kellogg foundation and with the help of the NCCMP and our member funds, the NCHC is poised to spearhead fundamental health care reform and, in doing so, to help our funds and those who share a common vision of health care reform to achieve that objective.
We asked representatives of both Presidential Campaigns to present arguments for their vision of health care reform
General Session (10:45 am – 12:00 pm) The Case for a Continuing Role for Employers In a Post-Reform Health Care System The national ground-swell for health care reform efforts has reached a pitch that has produced one of the few areas of agreement of the present presidential campaign – that the time for action is here. What form it will take is the subject of debate, but it appears that building on the current employer-based system would be much less disruptive and has the greatest chance for success in the near-term.
The national ground-swell for health care reform efforts has reached a pitch that has produced one of the few areas of agreement of the present presidential campaign – that the time for action is here. What form it will take is the subject of debate, but it appears that building on the current employer-based system would be much less disruptive and has the greatest chance for success in the near-term.
The first full year of the UAD/CVD has produced significant progress in establishing the legal and administrative structures to move the program into high gear in year two. Now its time for us all to “roll up our sleeves” and get it done – literally!
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