NATIONAL BUSINESS GROUP ON HEALTH

If you are not already a member, thery hope you will join the National Business Group on Health. Since 1974 they have been the nation's only non-profit organization devoted exclusively to representing large employers' perspective on national health policy issues and providing practical solutions to their members' most important health care problems. Membership in the Business Group offers you the opportunity to drive today's health agenda while exchanging ideas for controlling health care costs,... improving patient safety and quality of care and sharing best practices in health benefits management with senior benefits, HR professionals, and medical directors from leading corporations. The National Business Group on Health members are primarily Fortune 500 companies and large public sector employers — including the nation's most innovative health care purchasers — who provide health coverage for more than 55 million U.S. workers, retirees, and their families. The Business Group fosters the development of a safe, high quality health care delivery system and treatments based on scientific evidence of effectiveness. They work to achieve transparency, expand the use of technology assessment to ensure access to superior new technology and the elimination of ineffective technology, and make scientific evidence of effectiveness the standard for care, among many other objectives. High annual increases in health care costs have been major problems for all employers in the US for a number of years, hurting their ability to grow and compete in a global economy. Everyone is paying a lot, yet the care they get is highly uneven. Sometimes they get the best in the world but in far too many instances Americans do not receive the right care, or medical treatment is downright harmful with tens of thousands of lives lost and equally as many hurt by avoidable medical mistakes and health care-acquired infections. They are working together to find reasonable solutions to quality, safety and cost challenges while helping policymakers and legislators understand how these issues impact employer-sponsored care.More