Health
Key Points
- Encourage genuine market-based and consumer-oriented health insurance reforms, which simultaneously would control costs, improve quality, and expand access to health care for all Americans through free enterprise.
- Work to allow state spending to reflect the unique needs of each state and local jurisdiction, and set eligibility standards that reflect state priorities.
- Regulators and elected officials work to encourage health care sharing ministries to provide health care cost sharing arrangements among persons of similar and sincerely held religious beliefs, administered by not-for-profit religious organizations.
- Work to encourage furthering an environment that facilitates high quality, low cost healthcare that allows individuals choice, and control over their healthcare needs and expenses.
There has never been a time when both federal and state jurisdictions have been more in control of American’s healthcare than it is today. Implementation of the Affordable Care Act is well in motion, and each state has considered how to address provisions of the federal law as it has been mandated to take effect. At ALEC, we are constantly in search of ways to encourage greater choice, transparency and budget-predictability in our healthcare system. The Health and Human Services (HHS) Task Force seeks Model Policy that will allow decisions about individuals’ health care in the hands of doctors and patients, not government agencies or third party payers.
There is also incredible opportunity to modernize our healthcare system by encouraging greater innovation to providers by way of digital health and health information technology. As we go forward, HHS Task Force objective will work to break down barriers to innovation in our regulatory and legislative environment, allowing cutting edge products and services brought about by investment in science and technology into our models of care. With this, private enterprise will play an even bigger role in how we monitor and access care, whether it is remotely over broadband, in person, or through a digital application. Below are key initiatives we are in pursuit of. Please join us in this discussion; it is a great time to be at ALEC.
Model Policies
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Site Neutral Payments Act Draft
Be it enacted by the legislature of [state]: Section 1. Health Care Entity and Health Care System Transaction Fees and Payment Claims Subchapter A. Definitions. (1) “Affiliate” means a person who is: a. employed by hospital or health care system; b. under a professional services faculty agreement,…
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Resolution in Support of Veterinary Telehealth Modernization Principles Draft
WHEREAS, laws and regulations should allow veterinarians to practice the full extent of their professional training and expertise through telehealth; WHEREAS, all veterinarians should be free to deliver telehealth services; WHEREAS, clients should be able to access telehealth services for their animals from licensed veterinarians in other states; WHEREAS, no…
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340B Transparency and Accountability Act Draft
Section 1 Definitions: (1) “340B Covered Entity” means an entity described in 42 U.S.C. 256b(a)(4)(L) through 42 U.S.C. 256b(a)(4)(O) that: a. is authorized to participate in the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program under Section 340B of the federal Public Health Service Act; and b. has a service address in…
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Pharmacy and Patient Protection Act Final
Section 1 Disclosure to Consumers (A) Each pharmacy shall post in a prominent place at or near the place where prescriptions are dispensed a sign that clearly describes a pharmacist’s ability under this state’s law to substitute a less expensive drug product equivalent unless the consumer or the prescribing practitioner…
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Dental Access Model Act Final
Certification of Expanded Function Dental Auxiliaries* (EFDA) (1) In this section, “auxiliary” means an expanded function dental auxiliary*. (2) A certification to practice as an EFDA granted under this chapter shall permit the holder to perform all of the following as delegated and supervised by a dentist: (a) Placement and…
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Dental Therapists Act Final
SECTION 1. Definitions (1) “Dental therapist” means an individual licensed by the State Board of Dentistry who engage in the limited practice of dentistry. (2) “Dental Therapy” means the limited practice of dentistry, consisting of the services, treatments, and procedures specified under state law. (3) “Health care provider” means a…
Press Releases
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New Report Highlights Detriments of Overregulated Dental Industry
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Taylor McCarty tmccarty@alec.org 571-482-5023 Arlington, VA (February 28, 2017) – Since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA),…
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New Report Highlights Detriments of Overregulated Pharmaceutical Industry
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ashley Pratte apratte@alec.org Arlington, VA (January 11, 2017) – Since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the cost of prescription drugs have…
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New Report Offers Ways to Fight Prescription Opioid Abuse
Written by Dr. Wayne Winegarden, the new report explores the benefits of abuse-deterrent formulations (ADFs) of prescription opioids and offers lawmakers recommendations on how to expand patient access to the new technologies when addressing addiction issues in their states. In 2008, the record of abuse and misuse of prescription opioids has accounted for an estimated $55.7 million in healthcare, workplace and criminal justice costs.
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ALEC Amicus Brief: ObamaCare’s Individual Mandate Fails to Account for State Interests and Displaces State Policy Choices
Contact: Kaitlyn Buss Phone: 202-742-8526 Email: kbuss@alec.org ALEC Amicus Brief: ObamaCare’s Individual Mandate Fails to Account for State Interests and Displaces State Policy Choices Washington, D.C.