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NBCC Conference, cont.
NBCC's Framework for a Health-care System Guaranteeing Access to Quality Health Care for All
Since its inception, the National Breast Cancer Coalition has advocated for access to quality healthcare for all. At this year's conference, NBCC unveiled a Framework to accomplish this goal. Built on many years of research and study, the National Breast Cancer Coalition's "blueprint" for healthcare reform embodies the following key points:
- The Framework is premised on the fundamental belief that health care is a right and that all people present in the United States should have access to quality health care regardless of their immigration, residency status, or ability to pay
- The Framework is an outline for legislation that will support a system of evidence-based health care coverage for everyone
- The Framework provides that the basic benefits covered are comprehensive and evidence-based
- The system resulting from the Framework will include mechanisms to:
- Support development of new evidence through clinical research
- Continually refine benefits through comparative effectiveness and cost effectiveness analyses
- Reduce over and under use of care
- Include educated consumers in all decision making
- The system will be financed in part through cost savings and shared responsibility:
- Everyone - individuals, employers, and government - share responsibility to support the system.
- Individuals will be required to financially contribute to the system based on their ability to pay
- All employers will be required to contribute to the system. The Framework would phase out employer-sponsored health insurance. Subsidies or a sliding scale should be implemented to ensure that small businesses are not disproportionately affected by these payments.
When NBCC President Fran Visco unveiled the Framework, she stated, "This timing is perfect, since health care has surfaced as a top domestic issue in the presidential elections." Our work as advocates is to help the National Breast Cancer Coalition make sure no one is left behind when it comes to health care reform. |
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