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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 2007

  • Promote Health Care Price and Quality Transparency
  • Expand Access to Affordable, Effective, Quality Health Care and Coverage
  • Counter Employer Coverage Mandates
  • Advance Health Information Technology
  • Promote Pay-for-Performance
  • Support Comparative Effectiveness Research of New and Existing Health Care Interventions
  • Enhance the Usefulness and Flexibility of Health Accounts (Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, Health Reimbursement Arrangements, Retiree Medical Benefit Accounts)
  • Seek Family and Medical Leave Act Improvements
  • Promote Health Care Legal Reform
  • Support Pandemic Influenza/Bioterrorism Preparedness