Healthcare Legislative Committee

• Healthcare Forum Presentation - July 14, 2010
• Healthcare Forum Webcast - July 14, 2010 

• Small Business Tax Calculator-Health Care Reform: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) includes a provision for a small employer tax credit designed to encourage small employers to offer health insurance coverage for the first time or to maintain existing coverage for their employees. Capital BlueCross has developed a tax calculator tool to help our small groups identify their potential tax credit.

 Photo: Gross McGinley attorneys presented to Chamber members how the provisions of the federal healthcare legislation will affect businesses.  Thanks to Gross McGinley for sponsoring this Healthcare Legislative Committee luncheon.

The Chamber's Healthcare Committee’s objective is to educate and assist Chamber members to control healthcare costs while maintaining exceptional healthcare quality for employees by making an impact on these factors: personal accountability, transparency, tort reform, consumerism and promotion of free-market policies promoting competition in healthcare.

• Health Insurance Reform - June 23, 2010 - Administration Issues Regulation on Pre-existing Condition Exclusion, Lifetime and Annual Dollar Limits, Rescissions, and Patient Protections
• Healthcare Implementaion Timeline
• Aftermath: New Realities for Businesses in the Wake of the Healthcare Law 

Strategy: Serve Chamber members by providing legislators with the business community’s ideas and concepts and proactively affect the legislative process to enact policies that support lower costs while maintaining high quality healthcare.

Action Plan: Advocate pro-business positions on healthcare issues; develop and implement strategies to support these positions; and educate and engage members, policy makers and the community at large on the impact of healthcare issues.

• Healthcare Legislative Committee Policy
• Letters from the Chairman 

2010-2011 Board