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.
Health Reform (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) Implementation and Communications Toolkit
The Imperative for Health Reform: The Position of the National Business Group on Health
National Business Group on Health David Scherb Executive Public Policy Fellowship: 2011-2012 
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 2012
- Promote Transparency of Provider Price and Quality Data
- Continue to Assure Favorable Regulatory Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
- Employer Provisions
- Exchange Provisions
- Accountable Care Organizations
- Payment and Delivery Provisions
- Prevent Cost Shifting to Private Sector
- Advance Health Care Legal Reform
- Support Aggressive Medicare Payment Reform Including
- Price and Quality Transparency
- Primary Care/Medical Home
- Pay-for-Performance
- Maintain and Strengthen ERISA
- Promote Favorable Policy toward Onsite Health Centers
- Enhance Current Tax Treatment of Health Benefits
- Enhance Health Accounts
- Improve Wellness Tax Policy
Index of Health Policy Priority Issues
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