Mission :: Corporate Health Care Coalition

The Corporate Health Care Coalition (CHCC) is comprised of large, multi-state, self-insured companies that operate health benefit plans for employees and their families as well as retirees. Members of the Coalition have been in the forefront of efforts to ensure high quality and cost-effective benefits for employees. We have extensive experience in designing, administering and delivering employee health benefits, and are a major force in ongoing efforts to restructure and improve the health care system.

The CHCC is distinguished by its focus on issues that are critical for employers who sponsor health benefit plans nationwide. Employer-sponsored benefits are currently a fundamental component of our health care system. Employers contribute a significant portion of overall health care financing and large employer pools provide the best mechanism for spreading risk. As CHCC member companies work to obtain high quality benefit options for employees and to advance employee interests, they use their leverage in the system to drive quality improvements system-wide. Government efforts to expand health insurance coverage, control costs or protect health care consumers need to complement and support, and not adversely impact, the critical role that employers and employer-sponsored benefits play in the current health care system.

Employees are being encouraged to have greater choice and take greater responsibility for their health and health care. As the health care system evolves, federal legislation and government programs need to ensure that appropriate transitions can occur without undercutting the substantial role that employers will continue to play on behalf of employees and their communities in the health care system.

As a matter of principle, the CHCC member companies support:

Reliance on dynamic private-sector market forces to control health care costs, enhance choice and improve quality;

The ongoing transformation of the health care system in ways that enhance accountability for cost and quality and the systematic improvement of health care services and outcomes;

The ability to provide consistent benefits across state lines, as currently assured under ERISA, without the burden and inconsistency of state mandates and regulation that increase costs and reduce flexibility in benefit design;

Legislative and regulatory oversight that respects the voluntary nature of employer-provided health benefits and encourages the adoption and maintenance of benefit plans; and

Transparent and equitable distribution of financing for any government efforts, to the extent that government initiatives are necessary to ensure access to health insurance coverage or health care services.