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Consumers for Health Care Choices
About Us
CHCC is a 501(C)4 not-for-profit grass roots organization that represents the views of the health care consumer to policy makers and industry leadership . The membership consists of consumers from all walks of life, and all professions from across the nation. Members with expertise in health care issues are encouraged to take an active role in the organization's efforts--- giving speeches, writing articles, op-eds, and letters to the editor on behalf of the empowered health care consumer.
This organization is guided by some of the most well-known and prestigious individuals in the Consumer Health Care movement, including:
OFFICERS
- Stormy Johnson, MD, Board Chair
- Greg Scandlen, President and CEO
- Dick Matthews, First Vice-President
- Russell Lamontagne, Second Vice-
President
- Jim Knight, MD, Treasurer
- Bob Blandford, PhD, Secretary
DIRECTORS
Director: | Term Expires | |
| Steven Bassett
Chicago, IL | 2010 |
Bonnie Beland
BLB and Associates, La Canada Flintridge, CA | 2008 |
Jeannie Bell
Direct Laboratory Services, New Orleans, LA | 2010 |
Robert S. Berry, MD
PATMOS EmergiClinic, Greeneville, TN | 2009 |
Robert Blandford, PhD.
Memory Associates, Alexandria, VA | 2008 |
Robert F. Hamilton, MD, FACS
Godfrey, IL | 2008 |
Art Jetter,
Art Jetter & Co., Omaha, NE | 2008 |
Daniel H. (Stormy) Johnson, Jr., MD
Clearview Medical Imaging, Metairie, LA | 2009 |
James G. Knight, MD
Consumer Directed Health Care, Inc., San Diego, CA | 2009 |
Thomas Lagrelius, MD
Sky Park Medical, Torrance, CA | 2009 |
Russell Lamontagne
Corinth Group, New York, NY | 2009 |
D.H. Leavitt
Edison Health Innovations, Phoenix, AZ | 2009 |
David Lenihan
CareGain, Princeton, NJ | 2009 |
Richard Matthews, CEBS
Desjardins, Matthews & Company LLC, Hilton Head Island, SC | 2008 |
James Porterfield
American Farm Bureau Federation, Washington, DC | 2008 |
Roy Ramthun
HSA Consulting Services, Washington, DC | 2010 |
Erik Remjeske
Devenir Investment Advisors, Minneapolis, MN | 2009 |
Greg Scandlen
Consumers for Health Care Choices, Hagerstown, MD | 2010 |
Frank Timmins
MedCon Benefit Systems Group, Dallas, TX | 2009 |
Ralph Weber
Route Three Insurance Services, Paso Robles, CA | 2010 |
Wiliam West, MD
First HSA, Reading Pennsylvania | 2009 |
Jim Yocum
DestinationRx, Los Angeles, CA | 2010 |
Marcy Zwelling-Aamot, MD
ChoiceCare, Los Alamitos, CA | 2010 |
CHCC is dedicated to bringing freedom of choice in health care to all Americans and putting the consumer in the driver's seat of the health care system.
Our Mission
One of the missing ingredients in the Consumer Driven Health Care movement is the voice of the consumer. In a health system that puts health care consumers in the driver's seat, American consumers make millions of daily decisions about what to buy and what not to buy, what services to use and which not to use. These actions will have a greater impact on reforming the nation's health care system than all of the speeches, op-eds, policy papers, and media interviews in the world. But up until now the very people that will have the greatest impact have not been heard from.
Now all of that has changed. Consumers for Health Care Choices is the voice of the consumer, providing the missing key element in health care reform---consumer representation. CHCC works to accomplish the goal of consumer choice in health care through the following efforts:
Federal Government
- CHCC has a Washington presence, and works with Congress,
the Administration, and federal agencies to focus on making
consumer empowerment the unifying theme of national health
system reform.
State Government
- CHCC encourages states to adopt consumer driven health care principles in their own programs, including Medicaid and public employee benefits.
- We work to convince states to roll-back regulations that impede the growth of consumer driven health care and competitive markets.
Employers
- CHCC works to persuade employers to entrust health care decisions to their employees.
- We urge employers to provide free choice of health care
coverage to their employees.
- We educate employers on the advantages of a defined contribution
approach to benefits.
Medical providers
- CHCC encourages hospitals to provide transparent pricing and to recognize the value of self-pay patients.
- We encourage physicians to move away from third-party contracts that impede their ability to work in the interests of their patients.
Insurance Industry
- CHCC urges insurance companies to return to true two-party insurance arrangements and enable consumers to pay directly for routine services through the use of HSAs and HRAs.
- We encourage insurance companies to honor the relationship between patients and physicians by empowering patients to make their own cost-benefit decisions about treatment alternatives.
The future is very bright for health care consumerism.
America has tried virtually every other scheme imaginable
to balance the conflicting demands of access, quality and
cost. None of it has worked very well. It is long past time
to use the power of consumers operating in a free market
to obtain the optimum value of the health care resources
available. If you agree---join now, and finally have a voice.
About Our Founder
Greg Scandlen is the founder of Consumers for Health Care Choices, a non-partisan, non-profit membership organization aimed at empowering consumers in the health care system.
Mr. Scandlen is an accomplished writer, researcher, and public speaker. He is considered one of the nation's experts on health care financing, insurance regulation and employee benefits. He testifies frequently before Congress, and appears on such television shows as the O'Reilly Factor, NBC Nightly News, and CNN. Mr. Scandlen gives three dozen speeches a year to organizations representing employers and labor, hospitals and physicians, insurers and pharmaceutical companies.
He has published many papers on topics such as health care costs, insurance reform, employee benefits, individual insurance programs, HSAs and HRAs, and every aspect of consumer driven health care.
Mr. Scandlen has worked for several Washington-based think tanks, was the president of the Health Benefits Group and the founder and executive director of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance. He also spent 12 years in the Blue Cross Blue Shield system, most recently as the director of state research at the national association.
Contact Us
Founders
FOUNDING CORPORATIONS
Destiny Health, Oak Brook, IL
USHealth Group, Ft. Worth, TX
USOncology, Houston, TX
FOUNDING MEMBERS
Stephen Barchet, MD, Issaquah, WA
Steven Bassett, Oak Park, IL
Bonnie Beland, La Canada Flintridge, CA
Eric S. Berger, Houston, TX
Robert S. Berry, MD, Greenville, TN
Robert Blandford, PhD, Alexandria, VA
Robert Bouvier, MD, Grand Blanc, MI
Terri Buck, West Burlington, IA
ChiroCode Institute, Phoenix, AZ
Madeleine Pelner Cosman, PhD, Esq, Escondido, CA
Minda Donovan, Naples, FL
Richard H. Dougherty, PhD, Lexington, MA
Phillips Gausewitz, MD, San Diego, CA
Tim Godzich, Buffalo, NY
Robert F. Hamilton, MD, FACS, Godfrey, IL
Jamie Harris, Charlotte, NC
Bernhard Heersink, MD, Newburyport, MA
Robert E. Hertzka, MD, Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Regina E. Herzlinger, PhD, Boston, MA
Edward Dee Hinds, CLU, RFC, ChFC, LUTCF, Paso Robles, CA
Robert Hopper, PhD, Santa Barbara, CA
Robert S. Hurley, Folsom, CA
Art Jetter, Omaha, NE
Daniel H. (Stormy) Johnson, Jr. MD, Metairie, LA
Christian Josi, Washington, DC
Milt Kamsler, MD, St. Augustine, FL
Bob Kelly, Hackensack, NJ
Paul Kitchen, Richmond, VA
Lawrence W. Kneisley, MD, Torrance, CA
Richard Kravis, MD, Naples, FL
James G. Knight, MD, San Diego, CA
Thomas W. LaGrelius, MD, Torrance, CA
Ernest Lee, Lafayette, CA
Donald Levit, CLU, ChFC, Sugar Land, TX
David MacDonald, DO, Edmonds, WA
Kelly Madison, CBC, Boise, ID
Richard Matthews, CEBS, Hilton Head, SC
Trapier K. Michael, Nashville, TN
Duane Parde, Washington, DC
George H. Pearson, Wichita, KS
James L. Pendleton, MD, Bryn Athyn, PA
Timothy Pitcher, Nokomis, FL
James Porterfield, Washington, DC
Donald Prolo, MD, FACS, San Jose, CA
Joseph Lee Pugh, Diamondhead, MS
Chris Reed, New Canaan, CT
Thomas Reed, Naples, FL
Eric Remjeske, Minneapolis, MN
Greg & Nancy Scandlen, Hagerstown, MD
Thomas Schmidt, DC, Plymouth, MN
Carl E. Scott, CLU, RHU, Omaha, NE
Levi Smith, Austin, TX
J. Scott Spiker, Oak Brook, IL
Jamie Spriggs, Timonium, MD
Craig Swanson, Wayzeta, MN
William F. Sweetnam, Esq., Washington, DC
Richard L. Taw, Jr, MD, FACC, Santa Monica, CA
Cora Tellez, Oakland, CA
Richard Teske, Alexandria, VA
Frank Timmins, Dallas, TX
Roland R. Tindle, DO, Grand Blanc, MI
Robert Vernon, Roanoke, VA
Allan Wald, MD, West Palm Beach, FL
Richard Warner, MD, Overland Park, KS
Greg Westcott, Grandville, MI
Mike Whitney, Dallas, TX
Allen Wishner, CFCI, Rosemont, IL
Marcy Zwelling-Aamot, MD, FACEP, Los Alamitos, CA
Kristie Darien, Washington, DC
(as of August 31, 2007)
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